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  2. History of the electric vehicle - Wikipedia

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    Crude electric carriages were first invented in the late 1820s and 1830s. Practical, commercially available electric vehicles appeared during the 1890s. An electric vehicle held the vehicular land speed record until around 1900. In the early 20th century, the high cost, low top speed, and short-range of battery electric vehicles, compared to ...

  3. Electric car - Wikipedia

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    An electric car or electric vehicle (EV) is a passenger automobile that is propelled by an electric traction motor, using electrical energy as the primary source of propulsion. The term normally refers to a plug-in electric vehicle, typically a battery electric vehicle (BEV), which only uses energy stored in on-board battery packs, but broadly ...

  4. Electric vehicle - Wikipedia

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    Fastest acceleration of an electric car, 0 to 100 km/h in 1.461 seconds by university students at the University of Stuttgart. [69] Electric Land Speed Record 353 mph (568 km/h). [70] Electric Car Distance Record 1,725 miles (2,776 km) in 24 hours by Bjørn Nyland. [71] Greatest distance by electric vehicle, single charge 999.5 miles (1,608.5 km).

  5. The Pros and Cons of Electric Cars - AOL

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    But we don't live in the future, we live in the present. It's a time of great transition for the industry, but there are a few kinks that still need working out. Electric cars are efficient, quiet ...

  6. How and why states are committing to electric vehicles - AOL

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    California has led the charge to reduce vehicular greenhouse gas emissions, adopting legislation in 2022 that will require all new vehicles sold within its borders to be electric or plug-in ...

  7. What are electric car batteries made of, and why do ... - AOL

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    There's plenty of advanced chemistry happening inside an electric car's battery. Since many EV batteries rely on rare-earth metals, they make up the most expensive part of the vehicle and are part ...