| 词条 | Electrobat |
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The Electrobat was one of the first electric automobiles. It was designed and built in 1894 by mechanical engineer Henry G. Morris and chemist Pedro G. Salom in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Both had backgrounds in battery streetcars and, as the battery streetcar business was fading, they teamed up to make battery road vehicles. Their effort was patented on August 31, 1894. Built like a small version of a battery streetcar, it was a slow, heavy, impractical vehicle with steel tires to support the 1,600 pound immense weight of its large lead battery.[1] It entered production in 1895. In 1896, Morris and Salom founded the Morris & Salom Electric Carriage and Wagon Company,[2] evidently the first electric car company in America.{{Citation needed|date=October 2007}} Subsequent versions were lighter and had pneumatic tires, with bodies built at the Caffrey Carriage Company in Camden, New Jersey. These cars steered by their rear wheels and had two {{convert|1.5|hp|adj=on|lk=in}} motors that propelled them {{convert|25|mi}} per charge at {{convert|20|mph|abbr=on}}. Morris and Salom went on to build about a dozen Hansom cabs based on this vehicle, to compete with the horse-drawn cabs then in service in New York City; they operated in New York, Boston, and elsewhere.[2] They sold the cabs and their concept to Isaac L. Rice, who reincorporated the enterprise as the Electric Vehicle Company (Elizabethport, New Jersey), in 1897, and later became part of Pope's empire.[2] References1. ^{{cite web|url= http://www.caranddriver.com/flipbook/worth-the-watt-a-brief-history-of-the-electric-car-1830-to-present#2 |title=Electrobat to Columbia|work=Car and Driver|accessdate=16 October 2016}} 2. ^1 2 G.N. Georgano, Cars: Early and Vintage, 1886-1930. (London: Grange-Universal, 1985). 6 : Vehicles introduced in 1894|1890s cars|Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States|Historic electric vehicles|Companies based in Philadelphia|Motor vehicle manufacturers based in Pennsylvania |
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