TAMA E4S-47

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Tama E4S-47: The Electric Car That Beat Its Own Spec Sheet in 1948 Here’s a quiz for anyone who thinks battery swapping is a 21st-century invention. In 1910 a power company in Hartford, Connecticut, started swapping batteries on electric trucks. In 1947 a Japanese outfit built a swappable pack into a taxi. In 2011 an … Read more

NISSAN LEAF

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Nissan Leaf: the car that made EVs normal and burned the people who believed first America was the Leaf’s biggest market and the scene of its worst betrayal. The car that finally made the electric vehicle normal — affordable, five-seat, buy-it-at-a-dealer normal — also cooked its own batteries in the American Southwest and left its … Read more