History of Electric Vehicles 1890-2030 With gas prices soaring, more drivers are looking to purchase electric vehicles. But EVs are nothing new. They've been around for over a century.

Long before gasoline cars became the standard, electric vehicles were a common sight on city streets. Quiet, clean, and easy ...

After the Detroit Electric Car Company closed in 1940 with the death of its president, interest in electric cars all but stopped until the wake of the oil shocks of the 1970s and once again in 2006.

But history would prove them wrong. Advances in internal combustion engines in the first decade of the 20th century lessened the relative advantages of the electric car.

Electric vehicles were all the rage in the early 1900s, but they were soon abandoned. What happened and what can the history of EVs tell us about the future of transportation?

With more than 100,000 electric cars on U.S. roads--and thousands more added each month--advocates and historians are turning their attention to the last time cars with plugs rolled out of U.S ...

History also informs us about the barriers to mass adoption of electric vehicles. The same concerns – range, lack of sound and smell, brand recognition – have been raised for decades.

Although it took me another 15 years to own my first electric bike, I now work for a company that already has a vision of how to better integrate electric vehicles into the grid network.

“This is probably the biggest change in the 100-plus-year history of the industry,” Harley Shaiken, auto expert and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, told Yahoo Finance Live.

President Trump and Republicans in Congress are eliminating federal incentives to buy electric vehicles, but carmakers need ...

After the Detroit Electric Car Company closed in 1940 with the death of its president, interest in electric cars all but stopped until the wake of the oil shocks of the 1970s and once again in 2006.