Henry Ford

Electric Studebaker

The battle between gas and electric cars isn’t new

Science

In the auto business, the battle between gasoline-powered and electric vehicles is not new. Studebaker Motors manufactured many variations of electric cars over a hundred years ago. Electrics could have been a contender, but gasoline won out. So what happened?

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What’s good for Detroit

Detroit’s struggle hits African-Americans hard

The Living on Earth Almanac

Henry Ford’s Jungle Dystopia

When Henry Ford felt that the America he loved was slipping away, he did what any megalomaniac with means would do. He designed his own America in the middle of the Amazon, in the process securing a critical component of his industrial machine ?rubber.