Electric vehicles represent a turning point in automotive history, and the future looks electrifying. Thanks to the brave visionaries of the recent past, going electric is now a tangible ...

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.

The first commercially viable electric car in history was the Electrobat. Produced by Pedro Salom and Henry G. Morris of Philadelphia, this vehicle was initially extremely slow and heavy.

The electric car's first heyday was in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Photo of Thomas Edison with an electric car in 1913. National Museum of American History ...

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.

In 1971, an EV became the first car to drive on the moon with the Lunar Roving Vehicle or moon buggy. But the modern, clean, easy-to-use electric vehicle was still decades away.

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?

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.

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

This GIF, created by the folks at gearheads.org, takes you through that long history, including looks at the Lohner Electric Chaise in 1898, the Henney Kilowatt from 1959, AMC's Amitron from 1968 ...