Detroit - GM calls this feature electric starter as one of the most significant innovation in the automotive industry. Features that change 'the play's plot' in this industry.
"In recent years, Cadillac featuring women in advertising, showing them as a driver, not a passenger or observer," said Greg Wallace, director of General Motors Heritage Center as detikOto quotes from USA Today, Friday (02/17/2012).
And GM through the first electric starter is placed in the Cadillac Touring Edition memicut the attention of the user's success when that car. Motorists were flocking back to the car after a lot of gasoline to use electric cars.
In the end, the electric car when it was discontinued because of the high cost of production for decades and only recently began to bloom again.
But if you want more again pulled back, patent electric starter was already held by Clyde J. Coleman of Rockaway Automobile Company in 1903.
However, this feature when it is not widely used before the end of Charles F. Kettering of Dayton Engineering Laboratories which became known as Delco managed to get a patent for a new electric starter is much more simple and useful in 1911.
Kettering later worked with the founders of Cadillac, Henry Leland, to then apply these features in the Cadillac.
Currently, all cars have an electric starter as standard to start the engine. But who would have thought, this feature was already in existence since 100 years ago and now General Motors (GM) was warned when the world first saw the electric starter in 1912 at the Cadillac Touring Edition.
Prior to this feature is applied, the rider must start the car with a manual way of example only with the 'hand crank' which is considered dangerous because it could make the injury.
Especially the women of that era would be uncomfortable to find his hands dirty to turn on their car. As a result, in the early 1900s, the electric cars including the popular car in the world.
