Some people say that new energy vehicles are electric vehicles. Is this really the case?

Not to mention that new energy vehicles are not only electric vehicles, but also hybrid vehicles, fuel cell vehicles and other technical routes. In fact, the development history of electric vehicles is much earlier than that of fuel vehicles.

From this point of view, fuel vehicles are new energy vehicles, right?

As early as the 1820s, the prototype of electric vehicles had already appeared in Europe and the United States.

In 1821, the famous Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction, which made it possible to convert electrical energy into kinetic energy.

In the 1830s, Scotsman Robert Anderson (who later served as a major general in the Union Army in the American Civil War) had already built a battery-powered automobile.

The battery it uses is called a Galvani battery - copper is the positive electrode, zinc is the negative electrode, and potato juice or tomato juice is the electrolyte solution.

Of course, this battery cannot be charged.

However, such a car is enough to scare the enemy's troops - because it can move forward without a horse!

In 1837, another Scot named Robert Davidson built an electric locomotive (or locomotive), and launched an improved version in 1841 that could tow a 6-ton object and travel 1.5 miles at a speed of 4 mph.

At the time, this performance was already outstanding and much more efficient than locomotives using steam engines, which required workers to constantly add coal.

Therefore, the railway workers seemed to feel that their jobs were about to be lost, so they secretly smashed Robert Davidson's electric locomotive.

What is truly recorded in history is a rechargeable three-wheeled electric car powered by lead-acid batteries built by French engineer Gustave Truve in 1881. This car weighed only 160 kilograms and was the highest

The speed can reach 12km/h.

In other words, even if you ride a bicycle a little faster, it won't be able to catch up with you.

By the 1890s, Britain and France were both supportive of electric cars, while manufacturers in the United States and Germany were also producing electric cars.

Here we briefly list some cases.

In 1890, Scotsman William Morrison built a front-wheel drive, 4-horsepower electric car that could reach a top speed of 20 miles per hour and had a range of 50 miles.

In 1894, Philadelphians Pedro Salom and Henry G. Morris created an electric car called the Electrobat, which had a top speed of 20 miles per hour and a range of 25 miles.

The car even won a 5-kilometer race in 1896 called "gasoline cars vs. electric cars."

From the late 19th century to the early 20th century, electric vehicles had become mainstream in Europe and the United States.

Taking the United States as an example, in 1900, there were 15,755 electric cars, 936 gasoline cars, and 1,684 steam cars manufactured in the United States.

In fact, in the early days of racing, electric vehicles accounted for a large proportion, which was very different from people's inherent impression of racing.

In 1899, Belgian Camille Jenatzy built the first electric car that exceeded 100 kilometers per hour. The car looked like a torpedo and its body was made of lightweight aluminum-tungsten alloy.

In 1923, a product with a top speed of 25 miles per hour and a cruising range of 80 miles was launched. It was manufactured by the Detroit Electric Car Company (Detroit Electric).

As we all know, fuel vehicles (powered by internal combustion engines) were invented by German Benz in 1886, so the emergence of fuel vehicles was obviously later than electric vehicles.

Compared with electric vehicles, fuel vehicles are truly "new energy vehicles."

Since electric vehicles are much earlier than fuel vehicles, are hydrogen vehicles considered new energy vehicles?

No, hydrogen energy cars can be traced back to 1808. Frenchman Fran?ois Isaac de Rivaz invented a car that uses hydrogen as fuel, which is earlier than electric cars.

In 1863, Belgian ?tienne Lenoir successfully drove his hydrogen energy car and traveled more than 20 kilometers, 25 years before Mercedes-Benz's wife drove his gasoline car on the road.

I was really shocked by this. It turns out that fuel vehicles are “new energy vehicles”.