How Henry Ford And Thomas Edison Killed The Electric Car

[doug]

How Henry Ford And Thomas Edison Killed The Electric Car

 

[graham]

An interesting and more in-depth look at the Ford-Edison relationship is in the book: Internal Combustion by Edwin Black

http://www.amazon.com/Internal-Combustion-Corporations-Governments-Alternatives/dp/0914153110/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277311875&sr=8-1

While I don't agree with many of the conclusions Black comes to in this book, his historical research is pretty good and spends a good deal of time on both Edison and Ford.

 

[vfx]

An interesting and more in-depth look at the Ford-Edison relationship is in the book: Internal Combustion by Edwin Black

http://www.amazon.com/Internal-Combustion-Corporations-Governments-Alternatives/dp/0914153110/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277311875&sr=8-1

While I don't agree with many of the conclusions Black comes to in this book, his historical research is pretty good and spends a good deal of time on both Edison and Ford.

Great book!

 

[dpeilow]

How pro-hydrogen is he in the end?

 

[AnOutsider]

I wonder how different things would be... would be now be low on battery-building elements and be touting how much oil there is in the ground and building gasoline engines as the future? Likely not, but still interesting.

 

[vfx]

How pro-hydrogen is he in the end?

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[graham]

How pro-hydrogen is he in the end?

He is very pro-hydrogen at the end. But it is a good read regardless. Very exhaustively researched and interesting. Even if you do have to take his conclusions with a grain of salt.

 

[dpeilow]

Octane - History of electric cars