The Roberts Electric Automobile was built before the advent of mass production, but this little electric car got the same distance as a modern 33,000 dollar Chevy Volt.

From the DailyCaller here:

Meet the Roberts electric car. Built in 1896, it gets a solid 40 miles to the charge — exactly the mileage Chevrolet advertises for the Volt — the much-touted $31,645 electric car General Motors CEO Dan Akerson called “not a step forward, but a leap forward.”

The executives at Chevrolet can rest easy for now. Since the Roberts was constructed in an age before Henry Ford’s mass production, the 115-year-old electric car is one of a kind.

But don’t let the car’s 115 years let you think it isn’t tough: It’s present-day owner, who prefers not to be named, told The Daily Caller it still runs like a charm.

115 years is an awful long time to achieve zero growth in a technology. Know what we havent tried to reinvent? Steam power! Lets use a nuclear cell to generate steam power! Nice and clean, efficient, and long lasting.


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