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亨利·福特:我的生活与工作·补录 40

亨利·福特《我的生活与工作》· My Life and Work · 领导

He had ample grounds for his skepticism--to use the mildest terms. Practically no one had the remotest notion of the future of the internal combustion engine, while we were just on the edge of the great electrical development. As with every comparatively new idea, electricity was expected to do much more than we even now have any indication that it can do. I did not see the use of experimenting with electricity for my purposes. A road car could not run on a trolley even if trolley wires had been less expensive; no storage battery was in sight of a weight that was practical. An electrical car had of necessity to be limited in radius and to contain a large amount of motive machinery in proportion to the power exerted. That is not to say that I held or now hold electricity cheaply; we have not yet begun to use electricity. But it has its place, and the internal combustion engine has its place. Neither can substitute for the other--which is exceedingly fortunate.

出处: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7213
定位:Additional excerpt 40 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

那位怀疑者完全有理由怀疑,说得客气点也是如此。当时几乎没人对内燃机的未来有丝毫概念,而我们正处在电气大发展的边缘。和每个相对较新的想法一样,电力被期望能做到比我们现在看到的迹象多得多的事。福特看不出为他的目的去试验电力有什么用。道路车辆不可能靠电车线跑,即使电车线没那么贵;也看不到重量实用的蓄电池。电动车必然受续航限制,而且相对于输出的动力,要携带大量动力机械。这不是说他当时或现在轻视电力;我们还没开始真正使用电力。但电力有它的位置,内燃机也有它的位置。两者不能互相替代——这非常幸运。

上下文

福特在自传中回应别人对他放弃电动车、坚持内燃机的怀疑,解释当时的能源技术背景。

今日一问

你判断技术路线时,是跟风热门概念,还是像福特那样看清每种方案的硬约束?

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