Baker Electric (1900)

Baker Elektric (YOC 1902)

The Baker Electric (1900) was an electric car produced by the Baker Motor Vehicle Company , which was first shown to the public at the 1900 Automobile Show in Madison Square Garden , New York . The Baker Electric was an open vehicle and could accommodate two people. It had a drive - for which Baker held a patent - with an output of 0.75  hp , the range of the electric car was around 32 km. The first "Baker Electric" was acquired by Thomas Edison , who used it to carry out tests with his new nickel batteries. In 1906 Baker presented the successor model Imperial .

literature

• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter: Baker Electric .

Web links

• Hugo Diemer: Automobiles - a Practical Treatise ; American School of Correspondence (1909). see. P. 159 (PDF, accessed on July 10, 2014)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} The International Automobile Encyclopedia: Baker Electric.
2. ↑ U.S. Patent 709859
3. ^ Nigel Burton: A History of Electric Cars . Crowood Books, Ramsbury, 2013 ( digitized )