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'Early Motoring' - The Electric Car - John Scott Montagu
Cars
ELECTRIC CARS
AN electromobile is a vehicle propelled by one or more electric motors driven by current supplied by accumulators carried on the car itself.
In dealing with the subject it is not proposed to go into detail as regards matters of car-construction, arrangements of gearing, or the other features which every electromobile necessarily possesses in common with other self-propelled vehicles; the intention is to deal mainly with the special features which characterise it, the assumption being made that readers are now familiar with the general mechanical principles involved in all classes of self-propelled vehicles.
An electric vehicle may be regarded as consisting of a body, a running gear, with one or two motors mounted on it and arranged to operate the driving wheels of the vehicle through speed reduction gearing, of a battery of accumulators carried on the car itself, of connections between this battery and the motors, and of a controller, the functions of which will be explained.
It will perhaps be best to deal with the subject in accordance with this general division, and first of all to consider the principles and characteristics of electric motors and accumulators, after that the connection between the two—under which heading the construction of the controller will be discussed, and the general principles will be considered. Then it is proposed to give a cursory description of different types of running gear, illustrated by a couple of actually running electric vehicles; finally to treat of the ailments and misfortunes to which electromobiles are subject, and the general prospects and position of electromobilism at the present day.
An electric motor is a machine which produces rotary movement owing to the magnetic action caused by an electric current.
Everyone is doubtless familiar with the ordinary magnet, a piece of steel either straight or, more often, shaped like a horseshoe, possessing the property of attracting certain metals which are termed magnetic, or more accurately para-magnetic. Nickel and iron are amongst those which are attracted, but iron is much more powerfully attracted than nickel.
Next to the faculty of attracting iron, the most characteristic property of the ordinary magnet is what is generally known as polarity. Its two opposite ends possess different properties. This is not apparent when a magnet is applied to soft iron, which is unmagnetised, but is obvious when one magnet is applied to another. The ends and poles of the magnets are usually distinguished by being called north and south poles, and designated by the letters N and S. By the north pole of a magnet is generally meant the end which, if the magnet be very freely pivoted or floated on water, will point towards the north. The south pole is the other end. Sticklers for accuracy call these different ends the northward-pointing pole and the southward-pointing pole. We will content ourselves with designating them simply by the letters N and S. If a bar magnet be broken in two, each broken portion also displays polarity. If two magnets be confronted with the N pole of one opposite the S