When was the first electric vehicle made and who invented it?

Hardly a modern invention, the electric car has a long history. Interest has boomeranged over the years based on consumer trends and economics.
Electrek

A rare GM EV1 saved from the crusher is going to be driveable again

The General Motors EV1 has a vital place in electric vehicle history. It mainly served to show two things: Show a viable path for battery-electric vehicles back in the 1990s. Some forces are clearly ...
The Verge

A long-lost EV1 just sold at auction for a crazy amount.

GM destroyed most of the original EV1s, as documented by the documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? But a few remain, mostly in museum or university collections. The Autopian recently discovered one ...
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How GM killed the first modern electric car

Woman in medical scrubs says she’s US citizen while being dragged from car Two months into the new fiscal year and the US ...