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The most interesting is page 233:

> CHAPTER XVII. MOTOR VEHICLES.

> ...

> ELECTRICITY AS POWER.

> Electricity comes next in the list, and is now limited for production of current to three forms — the power station, supplying current by a trolley and motor; the primary battery, carried on the vehicle; the storage battery, also carried on the vehicle. The first may be impossible commercially, but it is not at all so mechanically. Given the lines and some workable device for insuring that the carriage shall not be too often “off its trolley,” together with provision for some minor difficulties which need not be pronounced impossible (since in an inventive and pushing Republic the impossible is the thing which becomes possible), and the thing is done. Leave this method to the future, meanwhile noting that a trolley automobile is already reported from Nevada as having been built. The primary battery, to be taken along, seems out of the practicable list in the present state of electrical development.

Especially this note:

> The primary battery, to be taken along, seems out of the practicable list in the present state of electrical development.

It mostly solved only after 110 years since «The Modern Bicycle and Its Accessories» book published, when Elon Musk produced Tesla Roadster (2008)[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster_(2018)



> It mostly solved only after 110 years since «The Modern Bicycle and Its Accessories» book published, when Elon Musk produced Tesla Roadster (2008)

An electric bike powered by a battery was actually patented the year before the book was published, in 1897:

https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/75/e7/86/9406fa2...

Here is another one (built by Siemens) from 1932: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Ebike193...


Think, as on 1897-1932 and until 2010s electric bikes powered by a battery still was out of the practicable list.

But since 2010s electric bikes turn on the practicable list, and latest ebikes really cool.

In 2017 Ukrainian Delfast model Prime e-bike set Guinness world record breaking 367 km (228 mi) distance on single charge.[0]

I hope, latest Delfast model Top 2.0 would beat Prime's record this year ;-)[1]

[0] https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/115107-gr...

[1] https://newatlas.com/delfast-top-2-ebike/60005




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