Antique Green Cars ?
July 17, 2008
One of the special features within the auto show on October 18th will be a display of “green cars.” Today, with the rising price of oil, automobile manufactures are rushing to design and produce new “green cars,” cars with alternate fuel sources such as electricity or hydrogen fuel cells. Most people are unaware that over 100 years ago, more than a one hundred automobile manufactures produced electric and steam cars utilizing little or no gasoline. It was a time when the automobile industry was unsure which direct it was going, whether automobiles be powered by steam, electric or gasoline? One of the reasons the gasoline engine became the fuel of choice was due to the fact it was so inexpensive. But history shows that the technology for automobiles powered by sources other than gasoline was developed and these automobiles were produced a hundred years ago. Thus, at the auto show in October we will have several of the early green cars on display along with examples of today’s technology. The photograph is of a 1919 Detroit Electric Automobile used with permission from conceptcarz.com.
