Furthermore, that's where we get the convention of "calling shotgun." The passenger seated next to the driver used to load and unload the batteries into a pump-action tube connected to the dashboard. The process looked a lot like loading and ejecting shotgun shells and the name stuck. While we're all more familiar with modern electric vehicles that conveniently either are fed by high-capacity magazines or are chain fed, at the time, car batteries were only loaded manually. Shotgun was a very important but laborious position way back then.
this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2025
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