Driving a 1903 Lems vintage electric car!
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- It's 120 years old & still going strong - but how does it handle modern traffic (and a McDonald's drive-thru)? Only one way to find out!
In this off-beat video, Gav met with David Boot from EV City in Christchurch to take their vintage Lems electric car for a drive through town. It may be a museum piece, but it doesn't mean it can't be used!
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I'm pretty sure they're not only the only people in NZ to have gone through a drive-thru in a 100+ year old electric car but possibly the only people anywhere not named Jay Leno.
Wonderful car from an era when cars used to be pure craftmanship!
Absolutely brilliant! Looks like a lot of fun. I'd buy something like this just for the giggles 😂
I use to ride a motorcycle, one of the worst things about riding was the fumes from cars. You don't realise how bad it is until you ride a push bike or motorcycle.
Excellent video!
Gav and Dave need to do some Top Gear-style, length-of-NZ races in EV cars.
these need to make a comeback. and everyone needs to watch Stroads by Not Just Bikes.
What a great ride, Gavin! Isn't it sad that we were already on the right path 120 years ago and then lost our way going with fossil-fuel vehicles? Imagine for a moment how much healthier our world might be like today without Nicolaus Otto and Rudolf Diesel...
You can understand why though; it took the energy density of Lithium Ion and the technology of fast charging to surmount the range issue.
That is a charming vehicle! The wood bits look new or freshly-planed and varnished. The wheels and tyres are modern, too. I like it!!! Sticking with my pedal bike as I have been for the last 10 years. Don't like making the insurance companies TOO rich, lol!
Brilliant to see old ev technology being kept going and on show!
Brilliant! I'd be terrified though.
Great, fun video. Everything you want, death defying stunts, top notch special effects, comedy, drama and a superstar line up.😜🤣🤣😜
Haha, great video, I love the banter and commentary between the two of you :-D
Love it Gavin. Traveling in style.
Absolutely wonderful. If only the world would have pursued the electric option back in 1903. As we saw, the technology was there even back then.
Without Extended Range Electric Vehicles, Plug In Electric Vehicles are like driving Syeam Engines from one firebox to the next.
Time to bring them back into production.
7:02 Great to see a proper hand signal, rather than "pointing at the ground over there". ;)
6:48 take me back to the dealership mr. dracey
Nice bit of preservation, thanks,
Now all I need is for Ecotricity to open up "across the ditch' in Aus.
love the foot operated bell. I happen to be in Massachusetts. You mentioned there's one here in a museum, may I ask where? Would like to go see it now that i've watch your vid
According to a Wikipedia about Lems.....:In the United States, there is an example of this car at Larz Anderson Auto Museum in Brookline, Massachusetts." Would be interesting to know if you find it there. If not, you can update the article ;)
Soo bloody cool!
Someone needs to start making these.
Lovely!!
What a hoot seeing the Lems go through a McDonald's drive through. That would be the scariest drive ever if they put lithium ion batteries in it. Definitely need some disk brakes then.
No seated heats? Lovely vid. About the only other vid I've seen was Jay Leno in his Baker Electric, and Jeff at GT Tooling (OZ NSW ) with a Baker Electric they had put back on the road.
PSC=1? Missed that bit 😉
That’s awesome!
I'm amazed it's allowed on the road 😂
Dunno why the Royal Diamond Jubilee carriage couldn’t’ve been made as an EV like the LEMS, rather than a measly 6 HP unit! 🤷♂️
thats so cooool
Id love to come visit EV City!
I’ve sat in that a few times but only Royalty gets to ride in it.
Nice video!
What a cool video!
Yeah the door is big enough 😂
Great video. Although ough I realize that at one time there were more EV’s on the road than gas, I hadn’t heard of this vehicle. It’s a shame it only gets to be on the road once a year, but I understand the safety concerns when it comes to the brakes. In my mind, upgrading the brakes would not take away from the vehicles authenticity.
What a great car.
Looks like a replica with a few period parts. Neat though!
very cool
Brilliant,
What's up with the bike wheels?
Brilliant! 😂
Are those aluminum wheels on that 1903 car?
What fun! 🎉 Maybe some seatbelts and motorbike helmets to feel a bit safer.
hahahha
-How many HP?
-At least one.
😃
How do the authorities work out originality on something like this? Is it the same idea as with classic aircraft, where they find key bits of the cockpit buried in a Normandy beach and rebuild around it? Or does someone go the the far end of a 💨 counting a percentage of original bits and gives it a tick when it passes 51?
Now race it against a tesla
I've done that already and lost
If the motor is period
It might be ozone from it you smell.
Even greater pollution than a modern petroleum car.