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The Lost History of the Electric Car and what it tells us about the future of transport.

To every age, dogged with pollution, accidents and congestion, the transport solution for the next

generation seems obvious, but the same problems keep coming back by Tom's sandwich.

Read by Bruce Edward Sherfield and produced by Esther Apokugini. In the 1890s,

the biggest cities of the western world faced a mounting problem. Horse-drawn vehicles had been

in use for thousands of years, and it was hard to imagine life without them. But as the number of

such vehicles increased during the 19th century, the drawbacks of using horses and densely populated

cities were becoming ever more apparent. In particular, the accumulation of horse manure on the

streets and the associated stench were impossible to miss. By the 1890s, about 300,000 horses were

working on the streets of London and more than 150,000 in New York City. Each of these horses

produced an average of 10 kilograms of manure a day, plus about a liter of urine.

Collecting and removing thousands of tons of waste from stables and streets proved increasingly

difficult. The problem had been building for decades. A newspaper editor in New York City

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