Electric Vehicles (EVs) are not new inventions. They were here first and dominated the automobile game early on vs. gas-powered rides.
Something happened, though. What (or who) turned the tide, knocking electric-powered vehicles to the backburner for decades?
Get the answer to that in the rest of this story (source: Car and Driver). Plus, you’ll discover:
Why the founder of Porsche built his first electric car and then abandoned EVs for 100 years.
What made early electric cars so popular with women that they outsold gas cars in 1900?
Which U.S. President was the first to ride in an EV ambulance (and what happened to him).
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Shane McLendon — Today’s Time Capsule writer
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