Yet another ‘jewish invention’ claim made by Marnie Winston-Macauley writing for Aish is that jews invented the first ‘100 percent solar-powered car’ with the jew credited being one Joel Davidson. (1)
It took me a while to find said Joel Davidson who is in fact just a glorified salesman of solar panels and who claims in his LinkedIn profile that:
‘Mr. Davidson was a director and manager for international PV companies and is one of the PV industry’s top engineering and sales managers since 1984. In 1986, he was listed as a PV industry founder and named “one of this country’s most experienced, hands-on pioneers” by the Rocky Mountain Institute. In 1984, with Greg Johanson he built the world’s first solar-only vehicle.’ (2)
There is no indication I can find that this Joel Davidson – of Culver City, California – is jewish but let’s assume for the sake of argument that he is. His claim that ‘he built the world’s first solar-only vehicle’ in 1984 is quite frankly purely anecdotal and even if he built one: he was not even remotely the first to do so.
The first purely solar-powered car was created in 1955 by an American engineer named William Cobb – who was employed by General Motors at the time – who showed off a concept car at the Chicago Automotive Show that was about the size of a loaf of bread that was entirely powered by solar cells. (3)
However, Cobb’s concept was not taken up commercially (4)
The first full-size purely solar-powered car was created and used by the British engineer Alan Freeman in 1976 but again: it was not a commercial success. (5)
In 1980 a team of jewish engineers from Tel Aviv university did create a partially solar-powered car named ‘The Ugly Duckling’, (6) but again this wasn’t fully solar-powered nor was Davidson involved in this as far as I can see.
While in 1982 Australian inventors Larry and Garry Perkins created a fully solar-powered car named ‘The Quiet Achiever’ that was then driven 4,000 miles across the length of Australian in under 20 days by Hans Tholstrup. (7)
So put another way: Joel Davidson and jews have absolutely nothing to do with the invention of the solar-powered car and it was in fact an American-British invention.
References
(1) https://aish.com/91795029/
(2) https://www.linkedin.com/in/joel-davidson-609a766/
(3) https://unfccc.int/news/sunny-side-up; https://www.dacemotorgroup.co.uk/blog/the-forgotten-history-of-solar-powered-cars; https://intisolarcar.com/blogs/learning-about-solar/the-dawn-of-solar-vehicles-a-historical-overview
(4) https://theethicalist.com/full-beam-ahead-for-the-solar-car-revolution/
(5) Idem.
(6) Idem.
(7) Idem.
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