{"id":309,"date":"2018-05-14T12:30:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T16:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/?p=309"},"modified":"2022-10-19T10:10:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T14:10:41","slug":"early-electric-car-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/early-electric-car-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Electric Car Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electric cars have been around much longer than most people realize. Below are 5 facts about the early days of electric cars:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Electric car models appeared as early as 1828 when a Hungarian inventor named \u00c1nyos Jedlik invented an electric motor and then the small model car powered by this motor.<\/li>\n<li>French physicist\u00a0Gaston Plant\u00e9 invented the lead-acid battery in 1859 which made rechargeable batteries for use in a vehicle viable for the first time.<\/li>\n<li>Around 1890 the first US electric car was created by chemist William Morrison. Its top speed was 14 mph.<\/li>\n<li>By 1900, electric cars accounted for about a third of all the vehicles on the road.<\/li>\n<li>Several factors contributed to the decline in the popularity of electric cars in the 1910s\/1920s including:\n<ul>\n<li>Improved roads\/infrastructure made the range limitations of electric vehicles an issue<\/li>\n<li>The discovery of large oil reserves around the world made gasoline cheaper<\/li>\n<li>The mass production of gas-powered vehicles (by Ford) drove the price of these vehicles down which made electric vehicles much less affordable compared to their gas-powered counterparts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric cars have been around much longer than most people realize. Below are 5 facts about the early days of electric cars: Electric car models appeared as early as 1828 when a Hungarian inventor named \u00c1nyos Jedlik invented an electric motor and then the small model car powered by this motor. French physicist\u00a0Gaston Plant\u00e9 invented &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/early-electric-car-facts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Early Electric Car Facts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}