They also played in the bands Milkwood, Richard and the Rabbits, and Cap’n Swing. In 1968, the pair formed a band called ID Nirvana, playing regularly at Ohio State University and area clubs. The pair met in Cleveland in 1965 after Ocasek caught a performance of Orr’s band the Grasshoppers on a local musical variety program called The Big 5 Show. Rhythm guitarist Ocasek formed the Cars in Boston in 1976 with bassist and singer Benjamin Orr, who died from pancreatic cancer in 2000. The NYPD announced Ocasek’s age as 75, but NPR says he was 70, according to public records. Few details have been released, including a cause of death. The songwriter and painter was discovered unconscious and unresponsive by his estranged wife, Paulina Porizkova. "Australia has a long history of vehicle manufacture, which came to an end a couple of years ago, in part because of globalisation of the vehicle production process and massive oversupply," he says.Ric Ocasek, co-founder and main singer of the band the Cars, was found dead in his Gramercy Park home in New York City, police confirmed, according to Variety. "If electric vehicles are part of our future, we are going to provide cheap finance so I would like to see us making electric cars in Australia," he said.īut Professor Kirsch believes that might be an over-zealous proposal. While announcing Labor's plan, Mr Shorten suggested that it might be time to see car manufacturing return to Australia. The Government has criticised Labor's ambitions, but Senate Estimates has heard the Coalition's own target is between 25 and 50 per cent. Labor's target is for half of all new cars sold in Australia by 2030 to be electric.
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"The question now is managing that transition in some way, figuring out how to survive, how to make money through the transition and to envision a future for each company." Australia the electric car nation? "I couldn't put an exact dollar figure on it but I think it is now clear to all the major players in the global auto industry that electrification is coming," Professor Kirsch says. Into the future, electric car manufacturers must work out how to survive in a global auto industry that "has long struggled with over-capacity, and relatively low profit margins". It could travel a game-changing 320 kilometres per charge.
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Its Roadster was the first serial production, all-electric car to use lithium-ion battery cells. The oil crash of the 1970s renewed attempts to reinvigorate the electric car.īut it wasn't until 2008 that the first viable option emerged, thanks to Elon Musk's Tesla Motors. The great hope of electric vehicles did not outlast the first decade of the 20th century. It faced rising competition from petrol-powered cars, but also hefty legal cases targeting its monopolistic practices. It was the largest motor car manufacturer in the USA, but lost its position only two years later. In 1899 a syndicate of prominent car manufacturers took over the rising company to form the Lead Cab Trust, which hoped to develop a monopoly across the US. The company pioneered a taxi system of leased vehicles that used service stations for quick battery changes and repair work. The Electric Vehicle Company, doomed to become a victim of its own business malpractice, was partly responsible for the demise of the product it was named for.įounded in the final years of the 19th century, it rose to prominence with its Electrobats, considered the first truly useful electric car for day-to-day transportation.ĭavid A Kirsch talks about the history of the electric car
"By 1910 you had the Model T, the iconic universal vehicle that was able to do almost everything that an electric vehicle could do and more."
"The unexpected progress of internal combustion … surprised everybody by making extraordinary advances in that first decade," Professor Kirsch says. Advances in internal combustion engines in the first decade of the 20th century lessened the relative advantages of the electric car. "If you'd asked the great experts of their age in 1900 which technology would come to dominate the motor-based transportation, I think most learned people would have said electricity."īut history would prove them wrong. "In 1901, 38 per cent of the cars were electric, and 20 per cent or so were petrol, and in the middle, there was the outgoing technology of steam," says technologist and historian David Kirsch. The electric car soon became the favoured method of personal transportation, well and truly surpassing its underdeveloped, gas-guzzling counterpart.
In the early 20th century advertisers were busy targeting prospective electric car buyers.
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