Berg Electric Car Company

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Berg Electric Car Company
legal form Company
founding 1920
resolution 1921
Reason for dissolution insolvency
Seat New York City , New York , USA
Branch Automobiles

The Berg Electric Car Company was an American manufacturer of an electric car that was primarily intended to be built as a taxi . It never went into series production.

description

The "Berg Electric" was presented to the public in October 1920 on the occasion of an electrical exhibition in New York City , where the company was based. Two versions were planned: a town car and a taxi. The latter should cost $ 2,650.

The Berg Electric Car Company announced that it would set up charging stations for the batteries in New York. Locations were planned at the Grand Central Terminal , at shops for electrical supplies as well as at all taxi stands and hotels. The idea was that the batteries would always be connected to the charger when the vehicle was parked. This was to ensure that it was ready to drive at all times. At that time, however, the memory effect , which affects the power output of the batteries, was not yet known.

Taxi owners were given the prospect of replacing dead batteries in their company within two minutes. The range of such a battery was about 60 miles (about 96 km).

Despite the forward-looking concept and even though the company had previously carried out a thorough market analysis, it went bankrupt in less than a year.

literature

  • Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard catalog of American Cars. 1805-1942. Digital edition . 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola 2013, ISBN 978-1-4402-3778-2 , pp. 120 (English).