The Electric Cars Challenge

摘要

Sometimes you must go back to go forward. Over 100 years ago, the great inventor Thomas Edison warned us that gasoline cars would pollute the environment and lead to gasoline shortages. He preferred the use of clean electric vehicles. He also put his money where his mouth was and developed an entirely new alkaline storage battery system for his beloved cars, the nickel-iron storage battery. This battery turned out to have an incredible run of application and is still being used today. It was the most profitable product ever made by the Thomas A. Edison Company.