Passers-by look at a "Delcar" electric car. The "Delcar" was 35 to 40 km / h fast, and had a range of 55 to 80 km at a price of 6200 DM.
Electric cars until 1989
Electric cars 1990 to 1995
Electrically operated bus in Berlin, circa 1900
Electric powertrain bus in front of the Reichstag building in Berlin.
Thomas Edison in his electric car, 1899
Thomas Edison in his Baker Electric. Edison bought the car to test a nickel-iron battery he had developed.
Electric car by Thomas Edison, 1901
The inventor Thomas Edison and his wife on a Baker Runabout, built in 1901.
Slaby-Beringer electric car, 1919
A small electric car of the Slaby-Beringer brand in Berlin. The car with self-supporting plastic body was designed as a cheap car replacement for war invalids, 2005 pieces were manufactured from 1919 to 1924.
Electric car, 1925
Early car with electric propulsion.
Electric cars and other types of drives until 1945
Electric cars and other types of drives until 1945
Electric droshky, 1895
The first 'electric droshky', a taxi with electric propulsion, manufactured by the Berlin engineering works Henschel und Co. Charlottenburg.
Electric carriage in Berlin, 1900
An electric cab with driver and two passengers in Berlin in 1900.
Electric car in front of the police headquarters in Berlin, 1914
The electric cab with the number 10 000 stands in front of the Berlin police headquarters. The increasing number of electric cars makes the horse-cab little by little redundant.
German ambulance at a demonstration, 1912
New cars made by Daimler wait to be presented to the German emperor behind the New Palace in Potsdam (in the background). They will be used to transport wounded soldiers in the upcoming war.
Electric car in Berlin, 1899
One of the first cars with electric drive, made by the Henschel Company, drives through the streets of Berlin.
Storming of a Soviet forest camp, June 1942
German infantrymen stalking in the forest at a Soviet camp during the advance towards Stalingrad on the Donets. The soldier in the foreground is equipped with a flamethrower. War reporter: Rynas.
Electric funeral car, 1909
An electrically driven, open funeral car.
Johanna Gadski, 1907
The opera singer Johanna Gadski gets out of her Baker Electric.