. Electric railway gazette . ing, Chicago, has designed a comprehensive line of elec-trically-propelled vehicles, or motocycles, with a view tothoroughly covering all the practical types of this classof apparatus. It was found by making several hundred inquiriesthat the average run of a cab, or public brougham, mileage capacity with one charging; accessibility tofuel at most anj point, and lesser cost in comparative difference is given as follows: Mileagecapacity in petroleum and gas equipment, 100 ; mileagecapacity in electric storage-battery equipment, 60 ; costper hour for run
. Electric railway gazette . ing, Chicago, has designed a comprehensive line of elec-trically-propelled vehicles, or motocycles, with a view tothoroughly covering all the practical types of this classof apparatus. It was found by making several hundred inquiriesthat the average run of a cab, or public brougham, mileage capacity with one charging; accessibility tofuel at most anj point, and lesser cost in comparative difference is given as follows: Mileagecapacity in petroleum and gas equipment, 100 ; mileagecapacity in electric storage-battery equipment, 60 ; costper hour for running gas and petroleum vehicles, about. sometimes called a coupe, does not exceed 25 miles aday; hacks do not exceed an average of over 20 miles aday ; time rentals for liveries do not exceed an averageof over four hours, which would not average over 25miles a run, and light delivery wagons rarely exceed 40 25 per cent, less than for electric equipments. Thesefigures apply to equipments of the same power in anytype. For an electrical equipment the weight is given as POOpounds, as compared to 500 and 550 pounds for gas and December 7, 1895. ELECTRIC RAILWAY GAZETTE. 423 petroleum equipment, but the former has the advantageof no noise, no heat, no presence of combustibles, farless mechanical complications, more instantaneouscontrol and no reciprocating- motion. The conclu-sion is drawn that, equipment for equipment, andmileage for mileage, everything would seem to be infavor of accumulators, except with respect to the accessto fuel renewal; the establishment, however, of electricliveries and supply stations in large cities wi
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