We think of our era as the one of electric vehicles . Looking back to the time before Henry Ford , though , we see that ours is not the first to regard electric vehicles as a thing of the future

The first ever electric cars

From Hungary to the Netherlands to a young United States , the first small-scale electric car technology starts to put a dent in the monopoly of ground transport held by horses and buggies

The first electric vehicle debuts in the US

William Morrison , a son of Des Moines , Iowa , creates the first electric vehicle in the United States . In appearance , it resembles a horseless carriage more than it does a car

William Morrison

Electric vehicles take over the world

Electric vehicles have taken off , and these years mark the first apogee of electric vehicles . No fewer than a third of all the vehicles on the American road are electric vehicles

16 March 2023