1910 Detroit Model D electric car
The 1910 Detroit Model D electric car could travel a distance of 340 kilometers at a top speed of 32 kilometers per hour, the usual speed at the time. It had a rechargeable lead-acid battery.
The Anderson Company built 13,000 electric cars between 1907 and 1939. The Detroit Electric was sold primarily to drivers and doctors who wanted instant, reliable starting without the laborious manual crank operation required in early internal combustion engine cars.
The growing appeal of electric power in cars today brings back its popularity in the early days of the automobile industry, when electric cars and trucks challenged steam and gasoline for supremacy. Electricity offered many advantages, particularly immediate availability without warm-up along with silent, clean operation, simple operation and reliability.
Even with the battery technology of the time, its range was more than adequate around town. Tests conducted at the time of the major manufacturers' electrics routinely produced effective ranges of up to 100 miles at the modest speeds they were capable of achieving.
The electric car's greatest strength was its operational simplicity and silence, attributes that praised electrics for women of the time who were put off by the smelly, noisy, and strange smell of gasoline-engined cars. None other than Henry Ford acquired two electric cars in a row for his wife Clara - both from Detroit Electrics.
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