Funky Cars > Does Mourning Become the Electric? 1: The Rise of the Electric Automobile

[Postscripts] More than a century ago, electric car pioneer Pedro Salom, alarmed over gasoline's downside, raised the specter of a future dominated by internal combustion engines: "All the gasoline motors we have seen belch forth from their exhaust pipe a continuous stream of partially unconsumed hydrocarbons in the form of a thin smoke with a highly noxious odor. Imagine thousands of such vehicles on the streets, each offering up its column of smell as a sacrifice for having displaced the superannuated horse, and consider whether such a system has general utility or adaptability."

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