{"id":8830,"date":"2016-02-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/museonicolis.com\/?p=8830"},"modified":"2024-07-12T12:49:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T10:49:20","slug":"baker-rauch-lang-double-drive-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/en\/baker-rauch-lang-double-drive-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Baker, 1919, Rauch & Lang, eletric"},"content":{"rendered":"

Baker, Rauch & Lang \u201cDouble Drive Coach\u201d, 1919<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Electric powertrain was successful both in Europe (the first person who reached 100 kph was the Belgian Camille Jenatzy<\/strong> in 1899 in his electric torpedo \u201cJamais contente\u201d) and in the USA, where in 1894 the first electric taxi cabs\u00a0were driving around\u00a0New York; in 1904 one third of the entire American car pool on the road\u00a0was electric and in 1912, they produced 10.000 electric vehicles per year. The electric car was silent, simple, clean and easy to handle: in fact it was the favourite car of high class ladies, who could use it without the help of the chauffeur,<\/strong> that driver-mechanic\u00a0who was necessary for the complicated petrol cars of the early 1900s. From the Twenties, electric powertrain was only used for commercial vehicles: do you remember the milk delivery vans in American movies?
\nThe car\u00a0displayed at the Museo\u00a0was built by Baker, Rauch & Lang<\/strong>. It could be driven,\u00a0through\u00a0a metal bar, both from the front and rear seats: in this latter case, the two front seats\u00a0could be moved facing the rear ones and the interior became a perfect lounge! Considering that the car didn’t make much noise, a mechanical system sounds a bell\u00a0similar to a tram when reversing the car. The car has a driving autonomy of about 70 kilometers.
\nIn the 70s the\u00a0company<\/span>\u00a0was bought by\u00a0Linde AG<\/strong>, the biggest elevator and industrial material handling company, renaming it Baker Material Handling Corp.<\/p>\n

Luciano Nicolis<\/strong> used to drive it around Villafranca to prove that even in the 21st century this electric car was still reliable.
\nGrandma Duck,<\/strong>\u00a0in the famous comic, used to drive an electric car just like this one!<\/p>\n

Whatch the Ruoteclassiche <\/a>video<\/a><\/strong> to discover the history of a similar car.<\/p>\n

2018,\u00a0TEST DRIVE Baker elettrica e Silvia Nicolis<\/a>
\n<\/strong>2019, Evento Ci.Te.Mo.S<\/strong>, Vicenza.<\/a><\/p>\n\r\n\r\n \r\n