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[–] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I would love to know the power capacity & range for these cars

[–] Yaky@slrpnk.net 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The cars were advertised as reliably getting 80 miles (130 km) between battery recharging, although in one test a Detroit Electric ran 211.3 miles (340.1 km) on a single charge. Top speed was only about 20 mph (32 km/h), but this was considered adequate for driving within city or town limits at the time.

From Wikipedia

Considering what roads were like at the time, and how far most people were from other things, 80 miles round-trip is plenty.

Heck, that's plenty nowadays for a lot of people.

[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Consider that the (in electric cars, obviously next-)most power hungry item on cars back then was the wind shield wiper motor. Modern cars easily put out 100kW, but then spend most of that in a thousand little ways. Back then, a 20W engine would be plenty.