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The first test of a Tri-Polar Lead-Cobalt Battery (fast charge version) was made just weeks after the battery was invented by Robert Raymond Aronsson at his battery factory in New Orleans, Louisiana. A set of Lead Cobalt Batteries was installed in a Renault Dauphine 2-door passenger car and Shilstone Testing Laboratory, Inc. of New Orleans was commissioned to perform road tests. The tests demonstrated a driving range of 120 miles on a charge, a top speed of 52 miles per hour, acceleration from zero to 40 miles per hour in 10-seconds and maximum speed on a 1:5 gradient climb of 45 miles per hour. This performance was unheard of in electric cars and resulted in the formation of Electric Fuel Propulsion Incorporated and the transfer of battery operations from New Orleans to Detroit, Michigan. Full text of the Shilstone report [PDF] follows on the next page.
This is where it all
started. New Orleans, Louisiana, August 1966.
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