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04/04/2022 9:57 am
I found this clip with no explanations. Where and what type of vehicle? Any ideas?
04/04/2022 9:59 am
battery access procedure was Brilliant !......but do we know if the car actually ran ???
04/04/2022 1:15 pm
A very interesting film clip. During World War II, gas was in very short supply and government rationing was strongly enforced. My father owned and operated a small bus line, and some of my earliest memories are of those busses and the crowds who packed them full. The government encouraged this and so gas was available for the busses, but Daddy was careful not to get caught putting any of the bus gas into his Pontiac. An uncle's Packard spent most of the war up on blocks; I wonder if he thought of converting it to battery power.
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04/04/2022 1:49 pm
Here in the Netherlands we had a battery switch place located near Schiphol, which is our main airport.
With a lot of excitement, they opened it around 2012.....see picture.
Only to find out that it hadn't been thought through well enough, because battery dimensions differed from one car-brand to the other.
And as a matter of fact, they still do.
So after a couple of years, it was all gone.
But, most of the time, technical inventions become old-school in a matter of months and that goes for this, too.
Nowadays, batteries are charged in a couple of minutes, so why the fuss with exchanging them ?
And, as the saying goes, there are no bad batteries, only bad owners.
So what if you received a bad battery after exchanging your good one ?
