26-09-2023, 07:00 AM
Electric powered vehicles are very much the thing these days but that is nothing new. Electric cars have been around for many years but they have just not had the affect that you might think with all this talk of climate change.
But with the advent of electric vehicles finally having an effect around the world, it reminded me of that which my dad told me when I was a boy in the 50s. He said that there were a few individuals that same up with alternatives to the internal combustion engine but they never got anywhere because when the petrol companies heard about these alternatives they bought up the ideas and then promptly shelved them. They just did not want the competition.
But I don't remember my dad telling me what some of the alternatives were. Perhaps someone knows what some of these alternatives were? I suppose electric would have been one and possibly cng may have been another but does anyone have any idea what some of the other alternatives that were shelved may have been? I'd be interested to know.
But with the advent of electric vehicles finally having an effect around the world, it reminded me of that which my dad told me when I was a boy in the 50s. He said that there were a few individuals that same up with alternatives to the internal combustion engine but they never got anywhere because when the petrol companies heard about these alternatives they bought up the ideas and then promptly shelved them. They just did not want the competition.
But I don't remember my dad telling me what some of the alternatives were. Perhaps someone knows what some of these alternatives were? I suppose electric would have been one and possibly cng may have been another but does anyone have any idea what some of the other alternatives that were shelved may have been? I'd be interested to know.
