Did you know that the first electric car came before the first vehicle powered by a four-stroke engine? If there is one thing, we can all agree on, it is that electric vehicles exude an image of being both modern and futuristic. But is this completely true? The fact is that the electric vehicle is not a 21st-century invention, but rather a 19th century one. Moreover, it came only 30 years after the main invention of that century: the steam locomotive.To discover the beginnings of the electric vehicle we must, despite the difficulty in establishing an exact date, travel back to the British Empire.We are in Scotland, between 1832 and 1839. Thanks to the advent of the Industrial Revolution, the cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh were at the time a cultural and scientific hotbed in Europe. And the Scots were unaware that ten...
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How does a fast electric vehicle charging station work?
Charge points are becoming increasingly commonplace on our road. But do you know how a fast electric vehicle charging station works?Times are changing, and the era when combustion vehicles were the only ones to be found on our roads has come to an end. It is now becoming increasingly common for combustion and electric vehicles to live side-by-side. Both the technology and availability of electric cars have grown significantly over the last decade, and their sales now account for 37% of the total market in countries such as Norway (the absolute leader), 1.7% in France, and nearly 1% in Spain and the United Kingdom.However, charging this type of vehicle is very different from what we are used to. Even though we know perfectly well how to refuel our car, and we are starting to become familiar with domestic charging points, which in fact are very similar...