{"id":574041,"date":"2010-05-21T01:58:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T05:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecofriend.org\/entry\/1920-milburn-electric-features-swappable-batteries-and-a-decent-range\/"},"modified":"2010-05-21T01:58:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T05:58:02","slug":"1920-milburn-electric-features-swappable-batteries-and-a-decent-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/574041","title":{"rendered":"1920 Milburn Electric features swappable batteries and a decent range"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/05\/21\/1920-milburn-electric_1_YRDZZ_69.jpg\" alt=\"1920 milburn electric_1\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eco Factor:<\/strong> Vintage car propelled by lead acid batteries. <\/p>\n<p>If you think that electric cars are a feat of modern automobile engineering, it\u2019s time for you to think again. Check out this 1920 Milburn Electric, a beautiful antique vehicle that could be considered modern even by today\u2019s standards. The vehicle features swappable battery tech, a DC charge port, a 20mph top speed and an all-electric range of 100miles. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"550\" height=\"335\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jlp-CKpOCFc&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x234900&#038;color2=0x4e9e00\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jlp-CKpOCFc&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x234900&#038;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"550\" height=\"335\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Back in the day the vehicle\u2019s cost was about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pluginrecharge.com\/2010\/02\/wanna-by-electric-vehicle-with-100-mile.html\">$1000<\/a>, which translates to around $11,000 today. The vehicle was billed as the first car that women could ride as it didn\u2019t require any manly hand-cranking. This vintage beauty is owned by a 72-year-old retired electrician, Tom Henry, who now teaches courses on solar technology.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/05\/20\/back-to-the-future-a-revolutionary-1000-ev-with-battery-swap-tech-and-a-100-mile-range\/\">Gas2.0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eco Factor: Vintage car propelled by lead acid batteries. If you think that electric cars are a feat of modern automobile engineering, it\u2019s time for you to think again. Check out this 1920 Milburn Electric, a beautiful antique vehicle that could be considered modern even by today\u2019s standards. The vehicle features swappable battery tech, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}