But Edison firmly believed that electric cars would prevail, and his company offered Henry Ford, at that time employed as the chief engineer at Detroit Edison Illuminating Company, the general superintendence but, according to Ford’s own description, “only on the condition that I would give up my gas engine and devote myself to something really useful” (Ford 1922, 24). At the beginning of the new century it was not clear which mode of locomotion would eventually prevail. Odds were against steam-powered cars (too heavy, too tricky to operate)—but electric vehicles looked promising. In the first
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love that we're getting back to electric cars and that they raced in Rhode Island 100+ years ago
