Electric Cars Tracing Their Roots to the First Electric Vehicle

1883: First Automobile Electric? ... An 1899 electric carriage designed by French engineer Charles Jeantaud. ... An 1899 electric carriage designed ... The first "crude" electric vehicle burst on the scene way back in 1832, according to the Department of Energy. The Tesla Roadster was launched for sale in 2008. It was highway legal, ran on lithium-ion battery cells, and could travel more than 200 miles ... Even though EVs were invented in the late 1800s, Tesla is the first modern electric car, the first to fit lithium-ion batteries and the first to ... As early as 1830, the first known prototype of an electric vehicle was designed by Robert Anderson from a carriage. The first electric automobiles were produced from the 1880s until the 1920s. Such cars had low speed and limited range but were quiet, with low maintenance ... Electric vehicles were the first cars to give people a sense of personal autonomy, especially women, who could own and drive a car decades before they could ... 1894. Henry G. Morris and Pedro G. Salmon design and build The Electrobat in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one of the world's first electric automobiles. In the United States, the first electric car was a six-passenger vehicle that had a maximum speed of 14 miles per hour. A chemist named William Morrison in Des ... The GE100 car used 18 modified lead-acid batteries to deliver 75 miles per charge on the highway or 40 miles per charge in the city. The batteries were good for ...