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Show THOMAS EDISON TESTING EFFICIENCY OF BATTERY Preliminary reports to the Anderson Carriage company of Detroit, from Thomas Thom-as A. TSdlson, who Is testing his new storage battery in a Detroit electric, shows that the car equipped with tho battory has traveled from 102 to 131 miles on a single charge. Edison Is making the tests to find Just what the man may expect who buys an electric equipped with his battery. He selected the Detroit as tho electric best fitted mechanically to carry out the test, and platted a number of routes over which the runs are being made. These routes begin nnd end at tho JEdlson headquarters head-quarters at West Orange and carry the car through tho country and over the hills of New Jersey, across Into New York and up through Westchester counlv. On ono occasion the Detroit mado 102 miles before the battery was exhausted; another time the odometer registered 11G miles; and a third time the Edison report re-port shows 131 miles. These distances were each made on a single charge of the battery, and are the more unusual by reason of having been made on countrv coun-trv roads. ' Those tests aro for the sake of the family man who wants to take his folks into the country for tho day." said Mr. Edison. "They will demonstrate that a man can take his wife out into the country coun-try In his electric car and havo no fear about getting back. On such roads as thoso between hero and Philadelphia. 150 miles ougt to bo mado without recharging. recharg-ing. On hilly roads the machines ought to run about 125 miles. 1 feel confident that there Is a great future for the storage stor-age battery in the automobile business, for there Is much less woar on the tires and on the whole machine than with the gasoline engine." Each of the cars In test carries two men tho driver and an observer, the latter lat-ter being changed on each new trip and being a newspaper man. |