Editing Tram (section)

===Battery===
[[File:Recharge d'un tram à accumulateur TPDS à Pont de Puteaux.jpg|thumb|Recharging battery-powered trams of {{ill|Paris and Seine Tramway Company|fr|Compagnie des tramways de Paris et du département de la Seine|vertical-align=sup}}, Paris, late 1890s.]]
As early as 1834, [[Thomas Davenport (inventor)|Thomas Davenport]], a Vermont blacksmith, had invented a battery-powered electric motor which he later patented. The following year he used it to operate a small model electric car on a short section of track four feet in diameter.<ref>{{harvnb|Nye|1992|p=86}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/history/davenport.html |title=Thomas Davenport |publisher=the Hebrew University of Jerusalem |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081016141835/http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/history/davenport.html |archive-date=16 October 2008|access-date=14 February 2009}}</ref>

Attempts to use [[Lead-acid battery|batteries]] as a source of electricity were made from the 1880s and 1890s, with unsuccessful trials conducted in among other places [[Trams in Bendigo|Bendigo]] and [[Trams in Adelaide|Adelaide]] in Australia, and for about 14 years as [[The Hague]] ''accutram'' of [[HTM Personenvervoer|HTM]] in the Netherlands. The first trams in Bendigo, Australia, in 1892, were battery-powered, but within as little as three months they were replaced with horse-drawn trams. In [[New York City]] some minor lines also used storage batteries. Then, more recently during the 1950s, a longer battery-operated tramway line ran from [[Milan]] to [[Bergamo]]. In China there is a [[Trams in Nanjing|Nanjing battery Tram line]] and has been running since 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/urban/single-view/view/battery-trams-running-in-nanjing.html?sword_list%255B%255D=nanjing&sword_list%255B%255D=tram&no_cache=1|title=Battery trams running in Nanjing|last=UK|first=DVV Media|website=Railway Gazette|access-date=2 June 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180114232814/http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/urban/single-view/view/battery-trams-running-in-nanjing.html?sword_list%255B%255D=nanjing&sword_list%255B%255D=tram&no_cache=1|archive-date=14 January 2018}}</ref> In 2019, the [[West Midlands Metro]] in [[Birmingham]], England adopted battery-powered trams on sections through the city centre close to [[Listed building|Grade I listed]] [[Birmingham Town Hall]].