Teslas electric car

[Jimboot]

You probably won't find anything in the Buffalo, NY newspapers. All of the info about the electric car came, one way or another, from Peter Salvo, Tesla's nephew. Some say he was, at that time, a lonely man looking for attention. Could be. Maybe not. but since there's really no evidence to back it up, it really comes down to belief. Personally, I was intrigued by the article that said the car could be used to power a home when not in use as a vehicle. That kind of points away from transmitted power because anyone could just as well put a receiver on the house as well. Tesla never tried to transmit power through the air as far as I know. His initial patents were to transmit power between balloons at 30,000 feet. It's right there in the patents if you look for it. He did, however, accomplish transmitting power through the ground in Colorado Springs. See his Colorado Springs notes of July 4, 1899. That's when he saw power being transmitted through the ground by lightning. He didn't immediately recognize what he was seeing because the next day's notes are talking about extracting hydrogen from the atmosphere for the balloons. We surely would have photos if he ever tried to maintain balloons at 30,000 feet. It would have been a major undertaking and I've never seen any photos of such. Somewhere along the line he realized that he could use the ground and do away with the balloons. That's what Wardenclyffe was about. When the July 4, 1899 notes are fresh in your mind picture lightning striking the ground at the same place every time and under controlled frequency and duration to set up standing waves. That's what Wardenclyffe was about.

But how do you power a moving car that requires an attachment to the ground? You don't.

Another man named Arthur Matthews, who claimed to be Tesla's son, also talked about an electric car with a new kind of "primary battery" that any 15 year old boy could replenish with new plates when the battery ran down. The problem with him, however, is that he claimed Tesla was from Venus so he's considered a whacko.

At any rate, nuclear batteries are in use today. They are used in applications where longevity is needed and no maintenance is possible or extremely difficult. The Russians used them to power lighthouses around the arctic circle. They are also what powers the Voyager space probes that were launched in the late 70's and are still transmitting data back today as they reach the edge of the solar system and start out into interstellar space.

But to understand Tesla's discovery you have to understand the times. There were no regulations on working with nuclear material until the 1950's - after it was proven that nuclear energy could be weaponized by the atomic bombs in Japan. So in the 1930's the field was wide open. What today is called "radiation" is what Tesla meant by "radiant energy". He didn't even coin the term. It was Michael Faraday that proposed "radiant matter" and Crooke's was the first one that I know of that used the term "radiant energy".

Also understand that when Tesla first mentioned "radiant energy" the atom was thought to be the indivisible minima of matter. Scientists of that day didn't just think that electrons didn't exist, but thought they couldn't exist. They also thought that all of those twinkles in the night sky were sun's just like ours. It wasn't until the 1930's that it was recognized that galaxies existed and that our sun is just one star in one galaxy that has roughly a hundred billion stars.

That's just a couple of examples of what I mean about understanding the times that Tesla worked in. A lot of what we take for granted today was unknown during Tesla's time.

See the attached file. It also has a lot of links to info the about these claims.

If you still want to pursue Tesla's electric car though news reports see if you can find a copy of John Ratzlaff's "Tesla Said". That is a 300 page compilation of articles and presentations by Tesla.

No you are incorrect. There are newspaper articles from the 1930s. I have read them. Even if I have to travel to NY and go to libraries I will find them. This Salvo thing is a recent fake news.

[sm0ky2]

I've rummaged through something close to 3,000
newspaper articles from 1891-1938 concerning Mr. T.
With an exception of an electric "death ray" of 50MV,
and plans to deliver it to Geneva just before the Fed's
ramsacked his lab... 
there was nothing of particular interest found in any of
the articles. Most certainly no mention of an electric
automobile.


I did however come across two variations of a photograph
IN a car, I'm not sure which one is the real image and which
one is the 'mirror' image.
Nor is there any indication that this is or may be the electric one.

[Jimboot]

Thanks Smoky, that was not the car it was a Pierce Arrow. When I find the article(s) I will post them here.

[Cherryman]

Doing some searching myself...


A lot seems to have vanished indeed... 


here is a mention in Italian about a newspaper in 1931


"Il New York Daily News del 2 aprile 1934 riportava un articolo intitolato "Il sogno di Tesla di un'energia senza fili vicino alla realtŕ", che descriveva un "esperimento programmato per spingere un'automobile utilizzando la trasmissione senza fili di energia elettrica". Questo successe dopo l'episodio e non vi era menzione di "free energy".[/size] "


Edit:


I added a PDF about the car, still not the newspaper

[Cherryman]

"CAR NIKOLA TESLA


1930 Tesla called his cousin, Peter Sava, who was born in Yugoslavia in 1899, to come to New York. Peter was 43 years younger than his uncle. Until that day he lived under difficult conditions in Yugoslavia, a country where he was born Tesla. During the year 1931, Tesla took his cousin in Buffalo to discover and test the new car. Tesla has developed its own means.


It was a Pierce Arrow, one of the luxury cars of that period. The engine was removed, leaving the clutch, gearbox and laptop to the rear wheels undisturbed. The petrol engine is switched round, totally enclosed electric motor 1m and a length of approximately 65cm diameter, with a cooling fan at the front. They say that he had no distributor. Tesla was not willing to say who produced the engine. It is possible that this was one of the sectors of company Westinghouse.


Tesla have made "energy receiver" (gravitational energy converter). Dimensions converter housing were approximately 60 x 25 x 15cm. He was installed in front of the dashboard. Among other things, the transducer 12 is contained vacuum tube, of which three were L-type 70 +7. Severe Antenna Long about 1.8 meters out from the converters. This antenna is apparently had the same function as the one in Moray converters. In addition, the two fat blends are sticking out approximately 10cm from the converter housing. Tesla them stuffed saying "Now we have the energy." The engine, it reached a maximum of 1800 rpm.


Tesla said it was pretty hot when working, and therefore the cooling fan was required. For the rest, he said that there is enough power in the converter to illuminate the entire cab and started the engine. The car was tested one week, reaching a top speed of 90 miles per hour without problems. Data about its effect were at least the same as those cars that have used petrol. The sign to stop a passer-by is noted that in muffler do not put the exhaust gas. Peter answered, "We have no engine". The car he was held on a farm, maybe 20 miles from Bufala, not far from Niagara Falls.


Couple months after his car tested, and because of the then economic crisis, she had to stop production of cars Pierce Arrow. It is likely that the correlation between the electric motor and gear train is in radial. Tools autobomila Pierce Arrow has taken firm Studebaker, South Bend-in. About 30 years later, the company has also disappeared, and formed the company American Motors, together with the company Nash. Later, some of his obozavacoci trying to revive the car Pierce Arrow. Unfortunately, they did not have success.


Thus, today the name of the company in the mausoleum, along with others such as Horch, Maybach, Hispano-Suiza, Bugatti and Isotta Fraschini."