The concept of an electric vehicle has been around since the invention of the car. While designers tinkered with the idea, it ...

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Hardly a modern invention, the electric car has a history tracing back all the way to the mid-1800s. Interest in technology has boomeranged over the years based on both consumer trends and economic ...

Remember, this was a time when you'd get gasoline from your local pharmacist or the area blacksmith, if you had either, not a gas station on every corner. If you were around back then you'd probably ...

Electric vehicles haven’t only become newsworthy in the 21st century. The Tennessean, part of the USA TODAY Network, has been covering EVs for more than a hundred years. On March 21, 1915, The ...

Few cars have captured the popular imagination quite like the EV1, the pioneering electric vehicle that General Motors launched a generation ago. Approved for production in 1994 and released two years ...

Explore the story of the BMW ActiveE, a unique all-electric version of the 1 Series that paved the way for BMW's future EVs ...

It was the most reliable car he had ever driven — that's how Kris Trexler remembered his General Motors EV1. "It was just a car that I took home, plugged in at night, got up the next morning — it was ...