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At the beginning of the 21st century, interest in electric and alternative fuel vehicles in private motor vehicles increased due to: growing concern over the problems associated with hydrocarbon-fueled vehicles, including damage to the environment caused by their emissions; the sustainability of the current hydrocarbon-based transportation ...
The term "electric car" typically refers specifically to battery electric vehicles (BEVs) or all-electric cars, a type of electric vehicle (EV) that has an onboard rechargeable battery pack that can be plugged in and charged from the electric grid, and the electricity stored on the vehicle is the only energy source that provide propulsion for ...
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).
The public was initially unimpressed, since the cars had a very slow start (slower than in a horse race) but after taking fifteen minutes for completing five laps, the car built by Riker Electric ...
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 ...
Hailed in late March 2022 for production to start in July 2024, the $2 billion first phase investment grew to a $4 billion electric vehicle factory and the "crown jewel" of the company's global ...
Electric car pioneer Thomas Parker FRSE MICE (22 December 1843 – 5 December 1915) was an English electrical engineer , inventor and industrialist . He patented improvements in lead-acid batteries and dynamos , and was a pioneer of manufacturing equipment that powered electric tramways and electric lighting .
By 2025, UBS predicts that 20% of all new cars sold globally will be electric. Electric vehicles may be 'the biggest change in the 100-year plus history' of the auto industry: Expert [Video] Skip ...