Wait, what was that? How could Nikola Tesla, who lived 100 years ago, comment on electric vehicles? Well, it turns out that he was way ahead of his time. As usual. Recall, he was right and Edison was wrong when it came to predicting how we would transmit electricity.
"At first glance it may appear that to generate electricity by an engine and then apply the current to turn a wheel, instead of turning it by means of some mechanical connection with the engine, is a complicated and more or less wasteful process. But it is not so; on the contrary, the use of electricity in this manner secures great practical advantages. It is but a question of time when this idea will be extensively applied to railways and also to ocean liners." - Nikola Tesla, New York, 17 December 1904; from "Charge It!" (an article about charging electric vehicles), published in IEEE Power & Energy Magazine, July/August 2011
And to electric cars, I might add. Dude was wicked smaht, as they say in Bahston.
Friday, July 22, 2011
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