The answer may surprise you.
Recently, as the impacts of climate change have become significant and evident, international organizations and many countries around the world have sought various solutions to change the situation. One of the solutions being considered is reducing CO2 greenhouse gas emissions from transportation by using clean energy vehicles, notably electric cars.
However, the recent emergence of electric vehicles does not mean that they are a new invention!
The car created by Carl Benz called the ‘gasoline engine car’. (Photo: Autap5)
This vehicle was born at a time when animal-drawn vehicles and steam engines were predominant. Therefore, immediately after its inception, no one believed in using it. It wasn’t until the Benz family improved it and used it for a long journey of 180 km that people began to trust and use internal combustion engine vehicles.
Robert Anderson and the car (allegedly) the first electric vehicle in the world. (Photo: Digit).
However, 50 years before Benz’s car was born, the world had already recorded another vehicle that used an electric motor and batteries. This vehicle is considered the first with an electric motor, created by Robert Anderson, a Scotsman, between 1832 and 1839.
This vehicle used a type of Galvanic battery. Compared to today’s standards, this type of battery is extremely outdated, simply because Galvanic batteries cannot be recharged.
Considering the era in which this vehicle appeared, animal-drawn vehicles were still common, so its emergence was seen as experimental, almost like a joke: “Look, it runs without any animal pulling it!”
