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Early electric cars were so easy to use, they were considered 'ladylike'
c. 1900
An electric car being charged.
Image: Library of Congress
Electricity is the thing. There are no whirring and grinding gears with their numerous levers to confuse, no dangerous and evil-smelling gasoline and no noise.
Thomas Edison
c. 1895
Thomas Edison poses with his first electric car, the Edison Baker, and one of its batteries.
Image: General Photographic Agency/Getty Images
Electric cars are not a recent innovation. They have been around as long as vehicles powered by internal-combustion engines.
First produced in the 1880s, electric cars gained popularity in the following decades for their ease of operation, and for being less smelly and noisy than their gasoline-powered counterparts. Read more...
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