The preoccupation with electric cars seems to be subject to a cycle of about 20 years. In the 1990s, an intensive development phase preceded the current work on tasks relating to electromobility (cf. Schwedes, Chap. 3). The electric car was supposed to go on sale in the USA in 1998. The background was a legislative initiative by the state of California which stipulated that 2% of the vehicles sold there had to be zero-emission vehicles. But even before that, after the first energy crisis at the beginning of the 1970s, very similar issues had been addressed (cf. Dreyer 1973; Weh 1974; Braun et al. 1975). The goal then as now was the development of a city car. During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, a BMW 1602 was even built as an electric car to accompany the marathon runners.
“Focus Battery”
On the Technical Development of Electric Cars
The Electric Car ; Chapter : 6 ; 115-139
2020-08-25
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