Hardly a modern invention, the electric car has a history tracing back all the way to the mid-1800s. Interest in technology has boomeranged over the years based on both consumer trends and economic ...

We tend to think of electric vehicles as a new invention, but as you can tell from the design, the first electric cars are now well over 100 years old, .

The dawn of the automobile age was a free-for-all of mechanical experimentation that would make modern engineers blush. Between the 1890s and 1920s, inventors were throwing everything at the wall to ...