His invention was also bare bones but it did ... which eventually powered over 600 cabs in New York City. What was the first electric car sold in the US? The first hybrid-electric car commercially ...

proving static electricity and lightning were one and the same. However, it was by no means when this phenomenon was first "discovered." Little did Franklin know that there would eventually ...

In 1832, William Sturgeon invented the first electric motor that could power a machine. Thomas Davenport patented a direct-current (DC) electric motor in 1837. The rechargeable lead-acid battery ...

This vehicle often is considered the first truly modern automobile ... other automobiles – steam, electric, and gasoline – throughout history, that were invented before and after Benz's.

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb discovered, in his experiments ... Initially, the first execution by electricity was to be carried out using Thomson-Houston generators. The company got wind of this ...

The advent of the electric starter (invented by Charles Kettering at Dayton Engineering, first for the 1912 Cadillac) did away with the hand-crank problem for gas cars once it spread through the ...

And a new invention—the automobile—seemed to be the answer. When the city's very first motorized taxicab ... The cabs were electric vehicles. Produced by the straight forwardly named Electric ...