What if we could end polluting road transport in time to avoid a climate crisis? We’re launching a global campaign to accelerate the transition to 100% clean road transportation. Learn more and get involved at bit.ly/TEDDriveElectric

@jewlishflewish7634

2 жыл бұрын

E

@skullltashan5321

2 жыл бұрын

Last time I was this early folks used to travel on horseback

@IsaacAwad.04

2 жыл бұрын

Heyy

@IsaacAwad.04

2 жыл бұрын

@TоmmуGаming 🅥 dude every where I go o see you

@Villager6883

2 жыл бұрын

I drink oil for dinner

I had no clue that electric cars are that old. I thought they were made somewhere around 70s.

@cyano975

2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree

@premjc9150

2 жыл бұрын

Same here

@hakimdiwan5101

2 жыл бұрын

@UCaTipEswRPWRC6X8jfRCj-g I am from India and here cars are still luxury for most people :(

@vembukarthick9824

2 жыл бұрын

But i thought it was invented by elon musk..

@hakimdiwan5101

2 жыл бұрын

@@vembukarthick9824 You better be joking.

It was surprising to learn that electric cars existed back in the late 19th century. I thought electric cars would be better than gas-powered cars in a lot of ways from the start, but this video corrected my mistake. This made me think that just because something is well appreciated now doesn't mean it was good from the beginning, and that making something easier to use and more efficient than before is just as important as making something entirely new. Thank you for the good video.

@sorryilikeyou9803

2 жыл бұрын

Still have a lot of problems tho but can be improve more better

@randomperson5454

2 жыл бұрын

What

@romanski5811

2 жыл бұрын

No, the lesson here is that starting and developing something that is more expensive from the start, will yield much better results down the line for everybody. Suppress the cheapest option and improve on the higher priced option.

@lucasw.4282

Жыл бұрын

Medicine is a huge one, throughout history people were wild.

@jonathanmillner

Жыл бұрын

It's also strange to think that the human impulse to drive fast, has environmentally devastated the world. Electric vehicles had the capacity to drive a long distance in the early 20th century. What it didn't have capacity to do was drive long distance and drive it fast. An electric vehicle moving at 15mph uses 1/16th the amount of energy to move the same mile than that same object moving at 60mph. We could've had electric vehicles that went a long distance 100+ years ago. They wouldn't have been road speed worthy, but with battery developments, just like we're finding out now, obviously they could've developed into something that could go further and faster.

I swear I had to make sure I was listening to the video right. It felt like the beginning of a steam punk retelling of world history. Had no idea EVs were this old. The more you know.

@evelynstenberg

2 жыл бұрын

Seriously. I actually rewound the video twice just to make sure I heard it right. Kinda blew my mind a little

@fripppie_doo8071

2 жыл бұрын

also, the first car invented WAS an EV. just take that in. lmao

@sorryilikeyou9803

2 жыл бұрын

@@fripppie_doo8071 hahaha lmao

@bybcj24

11 ай бұрын

Electric cars wasnt INVENTED, they were Discovered

Fun fact: All of New York's taxis from the early 1900s were fully electric. Edit: As someone mentioned below, it was around 90% of all taxis. Sorry for the lack of clarity. My memory was foggy.

@sergiom3988

2 жыл бұрын

Let me Guess: It all changed with Reagan, servant of the powerful oil companies.

@yusufbanna

2 жыл бұрын

really?

@tetrahexahedron3168

2 жыл бұрын

Fun facts are just a game of telephone. You go from the source stating they just had a fleet of electric taxis. To then someone claiming it was 90% without any of their provided sources stating it was 90%. And then here we are with a claim of 100% and no sources claiming it.

@--Paws--

2 жыл бұрын

@@tetrahexahedron3168 So which is it then, is it 90% or 100%? Would you prefer the statement only claim "most taxis" instead of saying a percentage? If you know it please expound upon your own facts about what is the truth of the matter. You left those reading in suspense.

@--Paws--

2 жыл бұрын

@@AB-wf8ek I know. It is just how the reply of that person seems to be lacking of information itself while implying by criticizing the op of not citing sources as well.

It's pretty funny: I've read old Donald Duck comics from the 50s or so, where electric cars are mentioned as this weird, ancient curiosity. (Donald's grandma drives one)

I wish they had put the * in the middle, but it's a sponsored video. Electric cars definitely pollute less than gas powered ones, but the automobile industry itself is pollutant since cars and roads still require heavy carbon emissions to build and lithium is a rare material. Not to mention how, unless the local electricity is generated by renewables, charging an electric vehicle still contributes to carbon emissions. The solution is to prioritize the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy and hinder car culture as much as possible by planning pedestrian friendly cities with good public transportation infrastructure.

@chusty93

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! This is exactly the comment I was looking for. The problem is the car itself. We need to walk more, ride bikes and use electric public transportation for long distances powered by clean, renewable energy sources. You can fit more people inside a bus than in the amount of cars that fit the same space as a bus, we would definetely not have traffick problems.

@kleinereisbar591

2 жыл бұрын

Yes this is so important to say

@DaanBrandt

2 жыл бұрын

Sponsored?

@solar0wind

2 жыл бұрын

I agree about the public transportation needing to become much better, BUT trying to go from fossil fuels to 100% renewables won't work. Until we have storage technologies that are way more advanced than everything we have now, renewables can only be a complement to a stable energy source. Fossil fuels aren't emission free, so we can't choose them as the main source obviously. So the only thing left is nuclear power. Nuclear power + renewables is the way to go. Trying to switch to 100% renewables will just increase the demand for fossil energy. This already happened in Great Britain where they've paid record sums to coal plants to keep the grid alive in the last couple of months.

@alexandredesouza3692

2 жыл бұрын

@fork I mean, no one's gonna fight climate change with that attitude. Like, since you believe solving climate change is all about convincing people to do "X" because the climate is changing, why are you going around trying to convince people who already agree that climate change is a problem to do nothing about it? If you think the task is impossible, you're not exactly making anything easier, are you? I know it's possible because I know the solution is more complex than telling people what to buy or how to live. There's a reason we're not riding horses right now or buying phones that explode.

Let's be honest, TED Ed's amazing animations are the most important aspect of these videos.

@heartandreuoquiana8610

2 жыл бұрын

I'm curious about the other aspects.

@paulgaither

2 жыл бұрын

@@heartandreuoquiana8610 - The content and editing of the script is fine. The narrator's voice is nothing special. No disrespect to that person, but it's true. However, it is the animation which draws me and many others in.

@samanthajr.1293

2 жыл бұрын

@@paulgaither I absolutely agree for the narrator however I actually think it's pretty nice. Since they change it depending on the video. You could see the diff btwn this video narrator and the riddle narrator. At least the didn't make a robotic voice like *cognito*

"Some models still gave a high upfront cost" ALL NEW cars have a high upfront cost. There are people who buy 25 years old used gas/diesel cars for 200€. Electric cars have a long road before reaching that destination.

Fun fact: Amsterdam had a car sharing service in 1974 that was all electric called "Witkar"

I was confused watching this at first, thinking gas (LPG) powered cars are surely not that common. Then I remembered American gas = petrol. How do Americans distinguish between gas and gas?

@zahirmurji

2 жыл бұрын

The other gas = propane in America.

@mxferro

Жыл бұрын

LPG are only used by companies with fleets of vehicles, the government vehicles or a few times a ranch or large farm. LPG is not practical enough to be used by the majority of drivers. Nor is HYDROGEN ( a ridiculous source to be used for the volume of cars on the planet).

@freeman10000

24 күн бұрын

@@mxferro LPG cars were very popular in Australia thirty years ago, I am not sure why they never really took off as Australia is self sufficient in LPG. Hydrogen (produced from renewable energy) is something that has a bright future. I really cant see EV's in their current form becoming more than a niche form of transport.

GM and other car companies built the first wave of modern electric cars back in the 90's due to a California mandate. This should be mentioned in the history of electric cars, including the fact that GM sued California, killed the zero emission mandate, then took back all their leased vehicles and ended up crushing every EV they built so they can continue selling gas powered cars for another 30 years.

@12trguitar

Жыл бұрын

There’s a documentary about this “Who Killed the Electric Car”. I think about that story all the time. Blows my mind.

I accidentally opened my notification for this video. I was going to dismiss it but I’m compelled to watch this now

4:25 the red dot is about Stockholm, Sweden not Norway

If EV technology continually developed for the past 120 years; just imagine how far EV technology would have come along by now. Perhaps we would have unlimited range EVs by now.

Thanks for the video.

It helped me with my presentation topic Thanks Ted Ed!

Wow, didn't know EV had such a long history. I remember watching a doco about EV was available again in the US in the 90s, which this video didn't mention that.

"putting gasoline in our rear view" well done

This is one of the best channel Not only increases knowledge Also erases the craving of mysterious things

Imagine an alternate universe where we settled for and improved electric cars

This was an incredibly interesting video! It was great to see the history of electric vehicles in 7 minutes. 🚗 ⚡️

Oh yeah using Norway as the role model country for clean energy. Let's just ignore that they export more than a million barrels of oil per day.

@paemonyes8299

2 жыл бұрын

The only reason they can afford all the green technology is because they profit so much from oil. Developing countries aren’t purposely destroying the environment, it’s just difficult with their circumstances

Love this thank you so much

Electric vehicles are great but public transportation is a better solution to battle climate change. We should work on moving in that direction. Lithium mining is terrible for the environment and cities are better when they are designed for people instead of cars.

@SunilKumar-in5ce

2 жыл бұрын

Yes scientists are finding solution to that thing

@thanosal-titan

2 жыл бұрын

@@SunilKumar-in5ce You don't even need scientists to make a good public transport system. You just need city planners

@andrickchetram6384

2 жыл бұрын

Too bad public transit is painfully slow for getting infrastructure updates. And what's there is painfully slow. (I'm from Toronto, I'm sure some areas around the world is much better but just looking at things in my city doesn't give me too much hope lol)

@indrab.7107

2 жыл бұрын

​@@thanosal-titan Excluding scientists, especially climate scientists, from these conversations is part of the reason we're still dealing with this issue, so not necessarily.

@nsa3679

2 жыл бұрын

@@andrickchetram6384 I feel you man, after coming to Canada, Toronto, suburban sprawl has been the worst thing for me. Even though Toronto is placed 2nd in public transport quality in North America, it still fades in comparison to my home apartment-oriented soviet city. Average commute would be, like, 2 times faster if urban density was higher.

Man. While watching this video I can’t help but continue to think about how we’ve almost destroyed the world in just one short century.

@S2Tubes

2 жыл бұрын

People have been panicking about non existent world ending events for much longer than a century. It's still here.

@dongoldney

2 жыл бұрын

whats destroying the planet is population and greed

@alimertc

2 жыл бұрын

@@dongoldney you must be a planet engineer

@Ashley-tb2hr

Жыл бұрын

@@S2Tubes there's definitely change, low laying countries in the south Asia is getting the first burn. There has been extreme floods that has never been seen before and it happening frequently

@Luthiart

10 ай бұрын

@@alimertc Ice core samples show that climate has changed drastically over the course of Earth's history, all without our influence.

Feels so great to come here within the first 52 seconds

@fartdevastator1971

2 жыл бұрын

40 seconds*

@randomrise1st72

2 жыл бұрын

Hello

Yo hi TED im almost first reply~~

@RAMBO14001

2 жыл бұрын

Annyong 👋

@emrullahcelik7936

2 жыл бұрын

What language is your name

@cyano975

2 жыл бұрын

@@emrullahcelik7936 that is korean

@user-cy7wq5ze8b

2 жыл бұрын

@@emrullahcelik7936 kor😄

I had no idea how much I was spending on gas until I went electric, and now that money I would have spent on gas has gone to paying off the car loan. It’s a no-brainer for me.

@RHo4ever

2 жыл бұрын

While there is little maintenance required for an EV, however, replacement of your battery due to deterioration and the depreciation cost of the EV will hurt you later. A new Tesla is not cheap but try selling it 2nd hand and the deep depreciation kicks in (although it is a sunk cost).

I love the art style in these videos!

Well, I am about to receive my first electric bike in next month. 😋

@thanosal-titan

2 жыл бұрын

Do you mean electric motorbike or electric bicycle?

@kvlpnd

2 жыл бұрын

@@thanosal-titan Electric motor bike.

40% Electic cars at he end of the 1800s??? 19th century... Time Stamp for 1:01 That's Wild!!!

The animation just somehow draws me into every video this channel releases.

Smooth animation!

When I was a kid I learned that Porsche's first car was an electric one from the late 1800s, I learned this from Need for Speed out of all places.

How can you illustrate an EV-1 and then completely gloss over it? I know you can't say everything in a 5 minutes video, but I recommend everyone watch "Who Killed the Electric Car?" documentary.

@ossieostrich69

2 жыл бұрын

‘Who Killed the Electric Car.’ An excellent documentary. Very informative.

Other types of cars: I thought you were dead. Electric cars: My death was greatly exacgurated.

The animation just keeps getting better

A couple of years ago I said to myself: I want a car and it better be a electric one! Now, the city my university is located is congested, not to mention the 2nd biggest city in the country where my parents live. Now all I want is a bike, because even the buses will get stuck.

Fun fact : everyone is writing fun facts here

@thegoldengood4725

2 жыл бұрын

not everyone h

@winstonteller9591

2 жыл бұрын

and they are not fun

@antoinebukenya4169

2 жыл бұрын

Who sent you

Norwegians are mostly Tesla-Drivers. That's a very common feature of the Norwegians

@tangbein

2 жыл бұрын

Starting to get more variation now with for example the Polestar and other cars. Too many Teslas roaming about lol. Though I´m not gonna lie. I´m waiting eagerly for my Tesla Model Y.

@hazardeur

2 жыл бұрын

@@tangbein good luck

@syedarushda2108

2 жыл бұрын

@@tangbein I am a great fan of Tesla too lol

A huge number of electric cars in 1915 were owned by doctors for emergency and home visits. They were very popular with ladies and England had a high number of electrics too.

Let's not be so quick to portray Norway as a Green Leader and champion - their national promotion of electric vehicles is very much at odds with Norway as one of the world leading oil exporters.

@warbler1984

2 жыл бұрын

Worth noting that they used their oil money to subsidise electric cars

@oskarhenriksen

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, we have a huge ongoing oil debate but it doesn't look like we're going to stop anytime soon. But at that one point, electric cars, we're pretty good, and to be fair, the vid only addressed that one point

Electric cars are the future, unless they are expensive, like they used to be.

@tiavor

2 жыл бұрын

They are still too expensive for the average person. Better public transport systems would reduce the need for cars overall. see channel: Not Just Bikes

@nanilama7016

2 жыл бұрын

If the electricity became cheap then Electric car would be best.

@randomprofile5853

2 жыл бұрын

They will only get cheaper. Kind of like smartphones when they came out they were expensive af, now basically everyone has them.

Gasoline cars: we are the first cars in history! EV's: Hold my 🔋🔋🔋

Once a brazilian automobilist build an electric car but at the time the pressure from the oil industry made him fail and sold a lot of them although taxes by the goverment to destroy him made him fail

Let's not talk about how GM had fully electric cars in the 70s or 80s that required so little maintenance that they discontinued and recalled all the models

@mxferro

Жыл бұрын

If your talking of the GM Ev-1 ( later named IMPACT). those would have put a huge leap ahead before Tesla was around. The only thing is they were limited in number...LEASE ONLY you couldn't own one and the list of drivers was very particular... Alot of celebrities got to have them and GM made sure they got high praise ( Tim Hanks had one for awhile and loved it..I think Mel Gibson did too). They ALL taken back by GM , the vast majority crushed and a few non-run in museums. GM decided to go the OPPOSITE WAY and make the awful HUMMERS. The documentary... "Who killed the electric car?"...covers Alot of it..and entertaining.

@_Mr_TBNR_BliTzz_

Жыл бұрын

@@mxferro Yes exactly that was the documentary 🙏

Great Ted Ed video

Love my EV and never going back to gas! 30k miles of pure EV driving so far and many more to come!

@dieselgeezer18

2 жыл бұрын

im the exact opposite lol

@Curryolla

2 жыл бұрын

@@dieselgeezer18 Have you every test driven a Tesla? They are loads of fun! I sorta miss the exhaust noise, but the g-forces upon acceleration are insane. And, super cheap to fuel up and maintain. Road trips are super easy too! But, I get it. I've also got a V8 Land Cruiser and I'm never letting go of that baby!

TED Ed back with a classic. 🔙❤️

Imagine if we didn't bother to excavate/search for oil in the first place. History would be different in some ways.

I have recently read some article about an Iranian prominent astronomer who lived about 1000 years ago and is famous for his poems in the world. It was mind blowing! He is called Omar Khayyam Neyshapuri. @Ted can make a great video about this Persian

Nice video 👌

Honestly, the early era gasoline car have unique sound imo ♥

I still really like the riddles from this channel and i only watch the other videos if the topic interest me

This gives me some hope for the future. 🙂

Thanks for not putting the link mentioned in the video as a clickable in the description... really good memory test (heavy sarcasm 🙄)

Y'know what's better than cars? Both electric and combustion? Trains. Electric trains. Way cheaper to run, way better for the environment, far more efficient.

@vylbird8014

2 жыл бұрын

The train only goes to stations, so it's not much use to most people unless you also have it paired up with a last-mile public transport system, like a network of bus routes.

@grubert3535

2 жыл бұрын

@@vylbird8014 yeah bus-routes and replies work great. Subways are another form of train that's wonderful. And building walkable cities is also more environmentally friendly too

@slimetank394

8 ай бұрын

​@@vylbird8014 lots of European countries do that. They even included bus/tram tickets into train tickets, and many countries are slowly moving towards bicycle friendly streets so you can make that last mile with bikes, e-bike if you want less sweat

It's interesting that there were electric cars in the past!

what is the quote of Machines plunging us more into problem at 0:05 signifying here ?

Again we love you from Iraq 🇮🇶❤♥

The animator maid a quite glaring mistake at 4:23 by placing the marker for Norway in the approximate position of Stockholm Sweden. We are two different countries you know, one of witch are doing a better job at switching to electric cars.

@starvictory7079

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, but we're not that bad in Sweden with EVs. Getting there!

I'm surprised the EV-1 was not mentioned at all

@Madverdrive

Жыл бұрын

I think that was at 3:17

2:15 look at all the smoke

is it deja-vu or have i seen that title before?

Nice video.

Wish you mentioned the cars that pushed the electric change. Chevy Volt, Nissan Leaf, and many Toyota models. Just mentioning rhe Tesla Roadster was scummy

Animation is lit🔥

very interesting

I saw the tesla commercial but the video did not play after .

Does Ted-Ed like butter toast ?

Ford had electric cars as early as the 1920s. Stanford Ovshinsky, president of Energy Conversion Devices, built a newly developed electric car that had a long driving range on a battery that lasted a lifetime, used environmentally safe materials, was easily manufactured, with operational costs that were far less than a gas-driven car-all reasons why the oil and auto industries were not supportive of electric cars and had them recalled and destroyed in California.

00:45 The rise of electric cars 01:18 The problem with electric cars 01:49 The decline of electric cars 02:34 The return of electric cars 03:43 The (second) rise of electric cars

A moment of silence for the few remaining petrol-heads, myself included.

Finding out EV's predate gas cars is like finding out Oreos (1912) predate chocolate chip cookies (1938)

Intresting

Imagine where we would be if they continued to develop batteries for cars in those 55 years.

@vylbird8014

2 жыл бұрын

Right where we are. Batteries are not just used in cars - there's been constant pressure to improve all through that time. The lithium-ion batteries used now provide far greater storage density than the old lead-acids, by volume and by mass. Biggest drawback is their short service life.

@SteveLawrence-ew9uu

5 ай бұрын

Do you mean 15+ years lifecycle of my lithium battery? You are still in the same century as the video, educate yourself please. @@vylbird8014

Almost the year •●•2022•●• *Welcome to the future*

Hey look I'm very early to a ted-ed video and ted is still not here yet!

*Japan started selling electric cars since 2009, FYI.*

If someone could link this to the Australian Government, then that’d be just super - thanks.

The quote in the beginning is very important in today's world

Everyone talking about the video Me: i like the animation…

Thank you. :)

A lot has changed since the release of this video. Sabine did a recent video on electric cars. It ain't going so well.

Hello guys welcome to my early Ted X view

imagine if you were one of the animators in ted-ed! :)

Fun fact: Paper is the greatest invention of mankind.

@funveeable

2 жыл бұрын

Which was squandered by its Chinese inventors and taken up by Europe, just like their invention of gunpowder.

@nobodyknows3180

2 жыл бұрын

Followed shortly by the pencil, the eraser, and the filing cabinet.

@gilmore6168

2 жыл бұрын

Tapos maniniwala ka sa fake news.

In a recent marketing class, I corrected our teacher quoting this video who thought electric cars are modern phenomena

3:14 I know that car...It's the HONDA INSIGHT! Best car ever made baaby

Hello, “I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.” - Brian Tracy

What about outboard boat engines? Is there something we can do there?

Nice

What about bio-diesel? I heard that things like cooking oil and bacon grease can theoretically be converted into usable fuel that theoretically has less severe emissions than gasoline, not to mention ethanol from bio-degrading plant matter.

Technology is gateway to discover future opportunities quick.

Amazing storytelling, technology is for good. Illiteracy and lack of education make is look like problems.

Norway is in Swden now?

@Friendship1nmillion

2 жыл бұрын

Actually , apparently according to my dad { he was born in Sweden and lived most of his life where i was born ~ Norway } part of Sweden known as Uddevalla used to be part of Norway : en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uddevalla ℹ📲 🤱🇳🇴🤳🇦🇺

Nothing about the EV-1 from General Motors (unveiled in 1997)? Why???

The omission of any information about the ev1 in the late 90s is concerning.

Yo