Скачать или смотреть The World Was Ready for Electric Cars in the 1920s — Until Oil Took Over

Did you know that in 1900, electric cars outsold gasoline vehicles in America — and that Thomas Edison and Henry Ford secretly collaborated on a low-cost electric car that was killed by a single tantrum? This video traces the forgotten golden age of electric vehicles, when 38% of all cars on American roads ran on batteries, New York City operated a fleet of electric taxis, and the Electric Vehicle Company was the largest automaker in the country. You'll learn how three simultaneous forces — the Spindletop oil gusher that crashed crude to three cents a barrel, Ford's assembly line that dropped the Model T to $260, and Charles Kettering's electric starter that eliminated the hand crank — conspired to wipe out an entire industry by the mid-1920s. We dig into Edison's decade-long obsession with the nickel-iron battery, a technology so durable that his original cells still work over a century later, and why Ford spent the equivalent of $40 million on electric prototypes before destroying the project overnight. This isn't just a history lesson — it's the story of how infrastructure, market timing, and cultural perception chose our energy future for us, and why every problem dominating EV headlines today was already being solved before World War One.

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