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  2. History of the electric vehicle - Wikipedia

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    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 internal combustion engine vehicles, led to a worldwide decline in their use as private motor vehicles. Electric vehicles have continued to be used for ...

  3. History of the battery - Wikipedia

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    Successive improvements in battery technology facilitated major electrical advances, from early scientific studies to the rise of telegraphs and telephones, eventually leading to portable computers, mobile phones, electric cars, and many other electrical devices. Students and engineers developed several commercially important types of battery.

  4. History of the lithium-ion battery - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. Today in History: Electric car wins its first race in the US

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    With all the recent headlines on electric cars, you might think the technology is fairly new, but the car that won the very first race in the United States was actually powered by a battery and it ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Battery discovery could ‘revolutionise’ electric cars ...

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    Scientists have discovered a new battery material that could radically reduce the cost of electric vehicles and supercharge the transition to clean energy technologies.. A team from Georgia Tech ...

  8. Battery electric vehicle - Wikipedia

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    A battery electric vehicle (BEV), pure electric vehicle, only-electric vehicle, fully electric vehicle or all-electric vehicle is a type of electric vehicle (EV) that uses electrical energy exclusively from an on-board battery pack to power one or more electric traction motors, on which the vehicle solely relies for propulsion.

  9. Timeline of transportation technology - Wikipedia

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    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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