AN APPROVED ELECTRIC LAMP POST. Give this article. Nov. 2, 1887. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from November 2, 1887, Page 9 Buy Reprints.

I had my first experience of this when driving an electric Fiat 500 around the UK last week. The car was great, and you'll no doubt hear more about that in the coming weeks, but the charging ...

Let's get it straight: using a lighting pole to charge the battery of an electric or plug-in hybrid vehicle is not a new idea, nor a spectacular one.

The key: use regular outlets instead of high-speed charging stations. At the moment, people charge electric vehicles one of three ways: at home, at a public charging station, or on a company ...

Electric vehicles face a challenge for urban adoption due to the difficulty of charging when ... Lamp post charging is also more cost-effective and much less obtrusive as the charging points ...

CHARGING YOUR ELECTRIC VEHICLE FROM A LAMPPOST HAS BECOME A THING IN LONDON. If you’re a suburban dweller, you may not see what the big deal is about charging infrastructure. You spend a few ...

Early models gave 40 lumens per watt (lpw), a figure that reached about 100 lpw by 1960. Today's low-pressure sodium lamps give close to 200 lpw, the most energy efficient light source commercially ...

1878: Joseph Swan demonstrates the electric lamp to the Newcastle Chemical Society in northern England. The incandescent light bulb has become synonymous with Thomas Edison. But Swan was the first ...