Robert and Jack spend the day with a staggeringly clean example of one of the very earliest electric cars: A 1901 Waverly Model 22. Built at a time when EVs outnumbered ICE cars, it is an incredible insight into the genesis of the electric car but what happened? Why didn't EVs catch on the first time around? Bobby and Jack go for a (very slow) drive to try to find out.

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EVA England: https://www.evaengland.org.uk

00:00 Intro
1:15 Meet the Waverly Model 22
4:10 Exterior walkaround
7:31 How does it work?
9:38 Battery swapping before it was cool
11:35 A (very slow) drive
13:22 Close call...
14:11 What happened to early EVs?
16:53 Lessons learned?

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