Electirc Car - 1813 Words

Timeline: History of the Electric Car 1832-1839 Scottish inventor Robert Anderson invents the first crude electric carriage powered by non-rechargeable primary cells. 1835 American Thomas Davenport is credited with building the first practicalelectric vehicle -- a small locomotive. 1859 French physicist Gaston Plantà © invents the rechargeable lead-acid storage battery. In 1881, his countryman Camille Faure will improve the storage batterys ability to supply current and invent the basic lead-acid battery used in automobiles. 1891 William Morrison of Des Moines, Iowa builds the first successful electric automobile in the United States. Thomas Edison and an electric car. Courtesy of the Smithsonian 1893 A handful of†¦show more content†¦1990 California passes its Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) Mandate, which requires two percent of the states vehicles to have no emissions by 1998 and 10 percent by 2003. The law is repeatedly weakened over the next decade to reduce the number of pure ZEVs it requires. 1997 Toyota unveils the Prius -- the worlds first commercially mass-produced and marketed hybrid car -- in Japan. Nearly 18,000 units are sold during the first production year. 1997 - 2000 A few thousand all-electric cars (such as Hondas EV Plus, G.M.s EV1, Fords Ranger pickup EV, Nissans Altra EV, Chevys S-10 EV, and Toyotas RAV4 EV) are produced by big car manufacturers, but most of them are available for lease only. All of the major automakers advanced all-electric production programs will be discontinued by the early 2000s. 2002 G.M. and DaimlerChrysler sue the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to repeal the ZEV mandate first passed in 1990. The Bush Administration joins that suit. Crushed EV1 electric cars 2003 G.M. announces that it will not renew leases on its EV1 cars saying it can no longer supply parts to repair the vehicles and that it plans to reclaim the cars by the end of 2004. 2005 On February 16, electric vehicle enthusiasts begin a Dont Crush vigil to stop G.M. from demolishing 78 impounded EV1s in Burbank, California. The vigil ends twenty-eight days later when G.M. removes the cars from the facility. In the film Who Killed the Electric Car G.M.Show MoreRelatedPeak Oil2218 Words   |  9 Pagesresult in the stock markets plummeting and this could lead to a world wide great depression. The lifestyle that we have been so use to is going to take a drastic change. Things like cell phones, televisions, computers, air-conditioners, heaters, and cars are some of many things that we will lose in this battle. The end of oil will also result in the end of suburbia. In the documentary, The End of Suburbia, James Howard Kunstler stated that, â€Å"in Texas oil was less expensive than a glass of water