Did you know the first cars were actually electric? Long before gasoline engines dominated the roads, early vehicles in the late 19th century were powered by electric batteries, offering a quiet and ...

"At the end of the 19th Century, a car was a “streetcar ... "At the beginning of the 20th Century, electric cars were very briefly more popular than internal combustion engine cars in ...

electric power. That tree of infrastructure bore fruit. The 20th century was to be the consumer century, hailed by most, scorned by some. In 1900, there were only 8,000 cars in the entire country ...