Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers
Electric Vehicles 1922 and Storage Batteries
by
Carroll & Winship
reprinted by Lindsay Publications Inc
Electric cars are certainly not new. They've been around as long as there have been autos. And in 1922 electric trucks could be seen on the streets of any large city. Marshall Fields in Chicago and Gimbels in New York had large fleets of trucks delivering goods for miles around without ever having to stop for gasoline. They not only worked, they were reliable and relatively low cost. The bad news is that most were hard pressed to travel much faster than 18 mph... BUT! That was while carrying as much as five tons of freight!
Here you get engineering details on electric vehicle state-of-the-art as it was in 1922. You get the Electric Vehicles chapter along with chapters on electric vehicle batteries and alkaline storage batteries (Edison batteries) from the The Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers.
Discussions
include passenger cars but most of the discussion is about commercial trucks
and tractors. You get illustrations showing the types of gear drive, the frame
layout, rear axle assembly, and more. You get short paragraphs discussing
brakes, battery requirements, tires, platform trucks, wheel construction,
frame design, vehicle motors, motor windings, vehicle resistance, controllers,
methods of charging both Edison cells and lead-acid batteries, circuit diagrams
of chargers, and more. You get charts that list various trucks and their specifications
and capacities, data on charge and discharge rates for various typical batteries
of the day, specs on available electric vehicle motors and more.
Then
you get a number of pages examining electric vehicle batteries, how cells
were assembled into batteries and used, and similar details on Edison batteries.
This is not how-to. This is a handbook that an engineer would dig out to learn about the electric vehicles available and how to use them, most likely, in the factory in which he worked. He was expected to be able to recommend something, and this was his source of expertise. You and I can use it to understand what was possible then, and therefore, give us an idea of what we might achieve using similar simple technology today. And I think you'll be surprised at what was possible. (Dummies think that old technology was worthless. "Technology must be the newest and latest to be useful." How wrong they are...)
If you're dreaming of building an electric auto, this will give you historical background that you need. Ignorance is very expensive. This book is cheap. It will set you back far less than a single lead-acid battery. So get one! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 63 pages
No. 23730 ... $7.95
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