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The simplicity attached to the operation of an electric vehicle by…
Quote byClinton Edgar Woods · 1863–1927
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Electric Automobile (1900), p. 14; Cited in: Imes Chui (2006, p. 106).
English (original)
The simplicity attached to the operation of an electric vehicle by any person of ordinary intelligence is too well known to need comment at this point ; but it is found from experience that there is the same difference in the care taken of an electric vehicle that there is among men who attend dynamos and steam engines, or drive horses, with a corresponding difference in troubles and aggravations.
— Clinton Edgar Woods
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