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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 vehicle - Wikipedia

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    If almost all road vehicles were electric it would increase global demand for electricity by up to 25% by 2050 compared to 2020. [77] [need quotation to verify] However, overall energy consumption and emissions would diminish because of the higher efficiency of EVs over the entire cycle, and the reduction in energy needed to refine fossil fuels.

  4. 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 ...

  5. History of Tesla, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    Tesla was incorporated (as Tesla Motors) on July 1, 2003, by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in San Carlos, California. [2] [3] [4] The founders were influenced to start the company after General Motors recalled all its EV1 electric cars in 2003 and then destroyed them, [5] and seeing the higher fuel efficiency of battery-electric cars as an opportunity to break the usual correlation ...

  6. History of the automobile - Wikipedia

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    The first automobile in Japan, a French Panhard-Levassor, in 1898. Fiat 4 HP, the first car model produced by Italian manufacturer Fiat in 1899. The American George B. Selden filed for a patent on 8 May 1879. His application included the engine and its use in a four-wheeled car.

  7. Timeline of transportation technology - Wikipedia

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    1893 - The Liverpool Overhead Railway opened on 6 March 1893 with 2-car electric multiple units, the first to operate in the world. 1893 - Frank W. Hawley adapted an ordinary steam canal boat to a trolleyboat (named after him), which was tested on the Erie Canal in the US. [32] 1893 - First sidecar.

  8. History of self-driving cars - Wikipedia

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    In 2011, GM created the EN-V (short for Electric Networked Vehicle), an autonomous electric urban vehicle. [70] 2012. MadeInGermany at Berlin, Germany in 2012. In 2012, Volkswagen began testing a "Temporary Auto Pilot" (TAP) system that will allow a car to drive itself at speeds of up to 80 miles per hour (130 km/h) on the highway. [71]

  9. Power window - Wikipedia

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    These systems were used by other luxury car models (Imperial and Packard) until Chrysler introduced the all-electric operation on the 1951 Imperial. The availability of power windows increased with the use of small, high-torque electric motors. [9] General Motors also followed with full electric operation in 1954.

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