Posted on 4/14/2022
There is a story you can read here saying that the electric starter motor was first developed by Cadillac because the original hand-crank starter actually killed a man. The original handcrank starters were both difficult and dangerous. Many women did not have the strength to turn them, and so could not drive without a man present to start the vehicle. It’s safe to say that the electric starter has transformed society, and the electric starter, of course, would not have been possible with asupply of electricity, which needed to be mobile. In other words, it needed energy storage. The impact of the automotive battery goes beyond starting your vehicle’s engine.Before the battery was put into use in cars, headlights had to be run on gas. Imagine pulling up to the fuel pump and to ... read more