Posts Tagged 'electric car'

Intuitively, the electric car makes all kinds of sense. It reduces our dependence on foreign oil, cuts pollution and reduces street noise. So why hasn’t America embraced the electric car?

For the answer, we have to go back more than 100 years when American visionaries saw promise in an electric vehicle.

According to About.com’s coverage of inventors, the first electric vehicle in the United States was invented in 1835 by Thomas Davenport, a blacksmith from Brandon, Vt. He built a ...