Prior to the Tesla Roadster’s breakthrough, electric vehicles fit one of three niches: golf carts, bumper cars and turn-of-the-century horseless carriages that nobody seemed to have anymore. Outside of the GM EV-1 testing program, electric vehicles were nothing more that oddities. Certainly, they wouldn’t become daily-use vehicles that would be seen as trendy, fashionable, and in the same vein as some supercars, would they? They would, and in a surprisingly short amount of time, too. Call that progress, call that a whimsy that has somehow gained a foothold, call it what you want, but electricity and vehicles have certainly come a long way in the last twenty years. It’s interesting to see the gap between a car like the Tesla Model 3 and the electric cars of the 1910s, but things seem to get weirder by the day.
Recently, French automaker Renault has announced that they are looking at reducing their carbon footprint by bringing in sailing ships. The plan is to bring in two ships, designed by Neoline, that will cross the Atlantic Ocean between the eastern seaboard of the United States and France. The expectation is that the ships will reduce 90% of the footprint of a normal cargo carrying ship.
Electric cars, sailing ships…what century is this, again? What’s next, an exploration into nuclear-based fuels? What is the next re-visited trend that is coming down the road…do you have any good guesses?
Maybe someone will start the pony express up again. Or how about covered wagons?
When a solar flare sends us all back to the stone age, everything new will be old, maybe Renault knows something we don’t.
They’re testing a hydrogen powered ship near me. Its on one of the more used passenger ferries
I’m hoping for ,pen and paper to make a huge come back.That way I will fit in again
Apparently cassette tapes are making a small comeback.
I found a WALKMAN at Target…vintage look to.
I think that all modern weapons should be scrapped and wars should be fought using armoured men on horseback!
I now commute to my office via Hot Air Balloon and I am currently shopping for a monocle.
White Letter tires seem to be making a comeback . Even if you have to buy a kit and make them yourself .
Ford recently bought a scooter company for 100 Mil, maybe we will all be riding electric skateboards soon?