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Yea it's called the electric carriage if you need a way to look that stuff up. Also I do believe NYC had a fleet of electric taxis at the time as well. The major limit as is today is the battery technology. Rumor has it depending on how deep down the rabbit hole you research, that a guy invented an electric carriage that could get you around 1000 miles. The jumping off point for electric vehicles coincides with standard oil.
Tesla didn’t need a battery. He said you could design appliances or cars to absorb electric ions throw the air.
And never demonstrated or documented how that might be done. He was prone to do that as he got older.
Because he knew his inventions were going to be misused. I would have done the same thing.
You don't know whether he had any further inventions beyond imaginary ones. There was no evidence, physical or documentary, among his effects to describe any of them. He was well into his 70s and was living the kind of life that today we could have associated with dementia: solitary, indifferent to his own physical well-being, and getting all his social interaction by feeding pigeons.
Hard to imagine his inventions would be "misused," when a good many of them were not used at all.
Talking of Standard Oil (i.e. Rockefeller) and electric cars, I heard that Rockefeller lobbied the government to ensure that electric cars had to pass an extra test to show that they were safe because everyone knows that electricity is dangerous.
That inflated the price of all electric cars so the gasoline-powered cars were cheaper for the same spec. Rockefeller was already as rich as some countries based on his sales of oil for heating and lighting but he wanted his products to be used in cars as well.
And if you don't know that electricity is dangerous, you ought to know. It killed a laboratory colleague of mine in a university laboratory, and he knew better than most of its dangers. Please don't scoff at truth.
Sorry, I meant it with an element of sarcasm.
As a side note, I am a qualified but retired electrical engineer in the UK.
Apologies. Unless the irony or sarcasm is unmistakable, my policy is to take everyone literally at their word. Still, you must be aware of the occasional folly and ignorance in the public, surrounding the subject of electricity, even after a century of living with it. (I speaketh as one who has run afoul of horsewire more than once!)