Electric Engine History
Added on 02-08-2006
The electric drive was widely adapted to practical domestic applications from the first half of the 19th century. It was created on the basis of recharged batteries: no vibration, no exhaust, 90% of efficiency in comparison with 25% of internal combustion engine.
The very first efforts were aimed at searching an alternative to the source of pulling power for noisy and fuming locomotives, but soon the experiments were shifted towards automobiles.
The first car electric engine was made by James Starley in 1888. Indeed the first satisfactory results were achieved by Raeford and Jantoe only in 1893. They constructed an automobile with two batteries located in the rear; each of them was 200Ah with total weight 420 kg. The engine power amounted 2.5 kilowatt by 1300 rpm.
The real reason for stopping experiments with electric drive in 1910 was the main problem of electromobiles - limited fuel distance, but not combustion engine rapid development. And the search of other source for pulling power wasn’t the actual for that time.
As to speed e-mobiles attained an appreciable progress. In 1897 an English electromobile Gladiator Pinganet overpassed one kilometer for 1 min 46 sec; and 5 miles for 8min 56sec. In 1894 five e-mobiles took part in Paris-Rouen race.
Undoubtedly, the major breakthrough in this kind of engine development was carried out in 1899, when Kamil Jenatsi overpassed for the first time the speed margin of 62.5 mph, showing 66.19mph as average speed! Jenatsi’s automobile had streamline form, what created important prerequisite for the record. But Jenatsi missed to construct proper driver’s arrangement: the driver had to sit waist-deep inside and the his top was in the outer.
World speed record was perhaps the last famous event in the electromobile history. This automobile branch was held up because of its expensiveness and limited fuel distance. These were practically the same objections against accumulator car that has also place nowadays: only one model can not propose an alternative for petrol car. In 1895-1909 a French company “Kriger”, the largest electric vehicle producer, achieved much success in this kind of industry. The company was presented in England as “British Electromobile”– “Namag” in Germany and “СТАЕ” – in Italy.
Fuel distance of the 1897 model amounted to 37.5 miles, given the max speed of 15 mph, and weight 1100kg (350kg of batteries).Two years later there was invented one more powerful automobile with two engines that provided 6 h/p either, that could run 56.25 miles without recharge.
Battery-driven vehicles were prosperous mostly in the USA, where Fred Kimble constructed the first model in 1888. The “Electrical Carriage And Wagon Company” in Philadelphia began as the first serial manufacturers of electromobiles. By 1912 there were about 20 thousands automobiles with electric drive. But the interests of buyers, as well producers were mostly ...
The very first efforts were aimed at searching an alternative to the source of pulling power for noisy and fuming locomotives, but soon the experiments were shifted towards automobiles.
The first car electric engine was made by James Starley in 1888. Indeed the first satisfactory results were achieved by Raeford and Jantoe only in 1893. They constructed an automobile with two batteries located in the rear; each of them was 200Ah with total weight 420 kg. The engine power amounted 2.5 kilowatt by 1300 rpm.
The real reason for stopping experiments with electric drive in 1910 was the main problem of electromobiles - limited fuel distance, but not combustion engine rapid development. And the search of other source for pulling power wasn’t the actual for that time.
As to speed e-mobiles attained an appreciable progress. In 1897 an English electromobile Gladiator Pinganet overpassed one kilometer for 1 min 46 sec; and 5 miles for 8min 56sec. In 1894 five e-mobiles took part in Paris-Rouen race.
Undoubtedly, the major breakthrough in this kind of engine development was carried out in 1899, when Kamil Jenatsi overpassed for the first time the speed margin of 62.5 mph, showing 66.19mph as average speed! Jenatsi’s automobile had streamline form, what created important prerequisite for the record. But Jenatsi missed to construct proper driver’s arrangement: the driver had to sit waist-deep inside and the his top was in the outer.
World speed record was perhaps the last famous event in the electromobile history. This automobile branch was held up because of its expensiveness and limited fuel distance. These were practically the same objections against accumulator car that has also place nowadays: only one model can not propose an alternative for petrol car. In 1895-1909 a French company “Kriger”, the largest electric vehicle producer, achieved much success in this kind of industry. The company was presented in England as “British Electromobile”– “Namag” in Germany and “СТАЕ” – in Italy.
Fuel distance of the 1897 model amounted to 37.5 miles, given the max speed of 15 mph, and weight 1100kg (350kg of batteries).Two years later there was invented one more powerful automobile with two engines that provided 6 h/p either, that could run 56.25 miles without recharge.
Battery-driven vehicles were prosperous mostly in the USA, where Fred Kimble constructed the first model in 1888. The “Electrical Carriage And Wagon Company” in Philadelphia began as the first serial manufacturers of electromobiles. By 1912 there were about 20 thousands automobiles with electric drive. But the interests of buyers, as well producers were mostly ...
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