The Model T rolls off the line

The march of technology

Things start becoming more sophisticated . The world ’ s greatest inventor , Thomas Edison , gets to work developing an electric car battery , while Ferdinand Porsche develops the world ’ s first hybrid electric car

Once Henry Ford ’ s Model T starts rolling off the assembly line in Detroit , the writing is on the wall for the first efflorescence of electric vehicles . The age of gas-powered cars is

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Decline and fall

Roads improve . Texas starts pumping cheap crude and petrol stations begin pullulating across the land . This means the end of electric vehicles – at least for now – and , by 1935 , they have all but disappeared

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