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Article: How clean is the plug-in car? (Engineering Brief)
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- October 13, 1990
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1990 Economist Newspaper Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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BUYING a car at the turn of the century was a difficult and dangerous business. Motorists chose from a wide assortment of horseless carriages, risking not just their money but sometimes their lives. They could pick a puffing steam car, with a boiler rather prone to explode, or a rickety runabout powered by an internal combustion engine which caused horses to bolt. Fuels ranged from alcohol to naphtha and petrol, which at least was cheap and plentiful. There were electric cars, toO. They were expensive and could not go far.
Almost 100 years later, electric cars are still too poky and inconvenient to compete with petrol-powered rivals. But their time may be coming. ...
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