La Jamais Contente

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La Jamais Contente
Curb weight
1,450 kg (3,200 lb)[1]
La Jamais Contente on display at the Paris Motor Show 2018
"La Jamais Contente" Detail: rear wheel, reconstruction of Museum Autovision, Altlußheim, Germany

La Jamais Contente (French pronunciation:

batteries. The high position of the driver and the exposed chassis underneath spoiled much of the aerodynamics.[2] The light alloy, called partinium, is a mixture of aluminium, tungsten and magnesium.[3]

The

tires
. The chassis was number 25.

Today, it is on display at the National Car and Tourism Museum in Compiègne.[5]

Driver

The vehicle was driven by the

rubber products (rubber was still a novelty at the time). Camille had studied as an engineer
, with an interest in electric-traction automobiles. He became known for his record-breaking speed runs and was nicknamed Le Diable Rouge ("The Red Devil") for the colour of his beard. He died in 1913, after being shot in a hunting accident.

Motivation

Wishing to carve a place in the then promising Parisian electric carriage market, Jenatzy started a manufacturing plant, which would produce many electric carriages and trucks. He competed fiercely against the carriage-maker Jeantaud in publicity stunts to see which of them made the fastest vehicles. In order to ensure the triumph of his company, Jenatzy built a bullet-shaped prototype, conceived by the carriage-maker Rothschild in partinium (an alloy of laminated aluminum, tungsten and magnesium).

Speed record

Jenatzy reached the speed of 105.882 kilometres per hour (65.792 mph), besting the previous record, held by Count Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat driving a Jeantaud, who had attained 92.78 kilometres per hour (57.65 mph) on 4 March 1899. After this exploit the gasoline-fuelled combustion engine would increasingly supplant electric technology for the next century.

The Jamais Contente is now on display at the automobile museum in Compiègne, France.

See also

Other land speed record electric automobiles

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "La Jamais Contente" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-10-10.
  2. ^ Wheeling to 800 km/h, Tech Tidbits, May 9, 2005. Archived 2012-10-23 at the Wayback Machine
  3. doi:10.4000/archeosciences.560
    . Retrieved 30 August 2011.
  4. ^ "EV Zero?". EV1 Club. Archived from the original on 2006-10-12. Retrieved 2006-10-18.
  5. ^ "Musées automobiles : Musée National de la Voiture et du Tourisme (Compiègne) | Moniteur Automobile". www.moniteurautomobile.be (in French). Retrieved 2023-10-12.

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