When the electric car was the future back in 1894. #tbt
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00:00You don't know it?
00:04It has been in circulation since 1942.
00:07It's the electric egg of Paul Arzins.
00:09For the cities, certainly, the electric attraction owes its advantage to its cleanliness,
00:19to its practical side, since all the elements, all the household instruments are electric today.
00:30The beginnings of the electric car coincide with those of the automotive history.
00:37The first was the Gento in 1894.
00:40There were also special models such as the Grand-Duc Nicolas,
00:47then utility vehicles,
00:50car schools, those of Parisian taxi drivers, among others.
00:55And of course, there were sometimes accidents.
00:59But of all these cars, the most luxurious was undoubtedly the Krieger Rolls-Royce of electric cars
01:05and the first front-wheel drive in the history of automobiles.
01:08The competition, in turn, took over from electricity, with Gento again.
01:13There was an infernal battle at the end of the 19th century for the world speed record.
01:19Indeed, in Hachey, in 1899, the Belgian driver Camille Genazzi, driving the Jamais Contente,
01:25set the world speed record with 105 km per hour.
01:29Why did it stop?
01:31Why did it stop? There were several reasons.
01:34But I think the main one is to call Freud.
01:37It was not virile.
01:39The car owner in 1900,
01:41is the same as the one who today has a Ferrari, a Maserati, a Lamborghini.
01:45So a car was virile, it was to move, it was to please.
01:49An electric car was silent, it was quiet.
01:53While a petrol car made noise, it smelled bad.
01:56And then the evil drove the car.
01:59So I think that's the truth.
02:02After the war, electric traction is abandoned except in Great Britain,
02:06where there are currently 55,000 electric vehicles,
02:09mainly used for domestic service.
02:17For the time being,
02:19each of us knows these long lines of cars,
02:22too big, too empty, inappropriate for urban traffic.
02:26However, without dreaming too much,
02:29we can hope that tomorrow the electric car will bring a remedy to all this.
02:34Made on a large scale, it could be the second ideal car.
02:49Made on a large scale, it could be the second ideal car.