image creditYou would be forgiven for believing that the electric car is something of a modern phenomenon, a reaction to the fact that the world's accessible reserves of petroleum will be gone within a few decades.
Although Scottish inventor Robert Anderson invented the first crude electric carriage powered by non-rechargeable primary cells in the 1830s, the first electric car in America was manufactured in Clevelend, Ohio. The year? 1899.
(thanks Robert-John)
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