The Last Battery you’ll Ever Buy.
World news Monday, February 13th, 2012In 1901 Thomas Edison developed an electric vehicle battery with a 50 year life span, low toxicity and better energy density than today’s lead acid batteries. Few companies were and are interested in marketing a battery that never wore out. For this reason lead acid batteries took over the market. Lead acid batteries have an expiration date. Edison’s nickel iron batteries do not. Many of his batteries that were more than 70 years old were still producing full capacity. The Royal BC Museum in Canada houses a 1912 Detroit Electric car with its nickel iron still functioning, 100 years later.
Thomas Edison spent $3.5 million between 1903 and 1910 perfecting his nickel iron battery. It was half the weight of lead acid batteries and had twice the energy density. His electric cars were demonstrably superior to the competition that were powered at the time by what we today know as Exide batteries. Thomas Edison’s nickel iron battery was used as the energy source for the Detroit Electric and Baker Electric vehicles. A 50 volt nickel–iron battery was the main power supply in the World War II German V2 rocket.
Edison’s batteries were made from about 1903 to 1972 by the Edison Storage Battery Company in East Orange, NJ. They were quite profitable for the company. In 1972 the battery company was sold to the Exide Battery Corporation, which discontinued making the battery in 1975.
Edison developed the nickel–iron battery to be the battery of choice for electric vehicles which were the preferred transportation mode in the early 1900s. Edison’s batteries had a significantly higher energy density than the lead–acid batteries in use at the time, and could be charged in half the time,
History has recorded that the electric car was built years before the gasoline combustion engine car. Electric automobiles held many speed and distance records. Among the most notable of these records was the breaking of the 100 km/h (62 mph) speed barrier, by Camille Jenatzy on April 29, 1899 in his ‘rocket-shaped’ electric vehicle Jamais Contente, which reached a top speed of 105.88 km/h (65.79 mph). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Jamais_Contente
Two years earlier, in 1897, electric vehicles found their first commercial application in the U.S. as a fleet of electrical New York City taxis, built by the Electric Carriage and Wagon Company of Philadelphia.
The good news is that nickel iron battery production has now returned. You can now buy these batteries that never die at Iron Edison http://ironedison.com/ Their sales motto is “The Last Battery you’ll Ever Buy.”
The New York Times – October 16, 1910, “AUTOMOBILES COMPLETE LONG ENDURANCE RUN; Trip of 1000 Miles Including Mount Washington Climb Proves That Edison Battery Is No Longer a Myth.”
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