Oooh, new hybrid car design!
Per the inventor:
"...This invention relates to motor-vehicles or horseless carriages, and particularly to electric-motor vehicles that carry storage battories and are driven by electric motors.
At present electric-motor vehicles are pro-
vided with storage batteries which after being full charged are capable of furnishing sufficient, electricity to run the vehicle for from three to five hours, after which lapse of time it is necessary to visit a power-station and have the batteries recharged in order to continue the trip or journey. On account of this dependence upon power-storage stations electric- motor vehicles cannot be used in
making long country tours, and the use there-of has been restricted to cities, and oven in cities it is often inconvenient to reach the power-stations, and, further, the cost of maintaining the ordinary electric vehicle is great.... the specific object of this invention is to provide a combined electric and vapor vehicle, the electric motor being employed to propel the vehicle and the engine to be employed to drive said motor as a dynamo for the purpose of replenishing the batteries on the vehicle..."
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