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As of December 2015, global sales of electric cars were led by the Nissan Leaf with over 200,000 units sold making the Leaf the world's top-selling highway-capable electric car in history. The Tesla Model S , with global deliveries of more than 100,000 units, listed as the world's second best selling all-electric car of all time. [ 171 ]
The sales of electric cars in the first quarter of 2022 went up to 2 million. [250] China has the largest all-electric car fleet in use, with 2.58 million at the end of 2019, more than half (53.9%) of the world's electric car stock. All-electric cars have oversold plug-in hybrids since 2012. [251] [188] [189] [252]
The General Motors EV1 is a battery electric car produced by the American automaker General Motors from 1996 until its demise in 1999.. A subcompact car, the EV1 marked the introduction of mass produced and purpose-built battery electric vehicles.
Fastest acceleration of an electric car, 0 to 100 km/h in 1.461 seconds by university students at the University of Stuttgart. [70] Electric Land Speed Record 353 mph (568 km/h). [71] Electric Car Distance Record 1,725 miles (2,776 km) in 24 hours by Bjørn Nyland. [72] Greatest distance by electric vehicle, single charge 999.5 miles (1,608.5 km).
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 ...
1997 – Toyota RAV4 EV, first nickel-metal hydride batteries (NiMH) electric car. Toyota Prius first mass-produced full hybrid car. 1997 – Nissan R'nessa, first short-run production lithium-ion battery electric car. 1998 – First ion-propulsion spacecraft Deep Space 1 launched. 1998 – Honda Raccoon Compo, first folding electric bicycle in ...
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2008: The launch of Tesla Roadster- the first highway legal, serial production, all-electric car to use lithium-ion battery cells, and the first production all-electric car to travel more than 244 miles (393 km) per charge- ushered a new era in the history of Li-ion batteries, which is signified as inflection points in the plots "The log number ...