THE ELECTRIC CAR

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13658, 28 March 1918, Page 4

THE ELECTRIC CAR

Ajmerican manufacturers are eeizing every opiportundty to drive home tlhe vktues of the eleotric car. A few week® ago a saniall electric car with two passengers started off from New York bound for Aitlantic City, over a distance of L2:3> miles of very indifferent roads. On the outwaa'd. run the pace was easy, the journey being completed in aibout eijgiht hours. Ob the return trip it was decided to. put the vehicle against tihe clock, and the 1.2*3 miles were reeled off in two miniutes under six houir§. The most astonishing feature was the low cost of running. T3ie current consumed costi less than half what would have been incurred had petrol been used. The* field of application! of tKe two vehicles, the electric and the petrol, are so well defined and extensive as to leave plenty of space for the adequate development of either. The electric will not rival its petrol consort for general touring, it is essentially limited to ■intei'ur'ba.n,, city, and runabout duties over relatively short distances. The advent of the electric will doubtless have the effeotV of causing tihe petrol vehicle: to be exploited in fields which ac yet it hais scarcely entered.