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Woman charges her electric car in her garage, USA, 1912 (lemmy.world)
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[-] Yaky@slrpnk.net 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The cars were advertised as reliably getting 80 miles (130 km) between battery recharging, although in one test a Detroit Electric ran 211.3 miles (340.1 km) on a single charge. Top speed was only about 20 mph (32 km/h), but this was considered adequate for driving within city or town limits at the time.

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[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Considering what roads were like at the time, and how far most people were from other things, 80 miles round-trip is plenty.

Heck, that's plenty nowadays for a lot of people.

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