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The global stock of plug-in electric passenger cars reached 5.1 million units in December 2018, consisting of 3.3 million all-electric cars (65%) and 1.8 million plug-in hybrid cars (35%). [ 221 ] [ 216 ] The global ratio between BEVs and PHEVs has been shifting towards fully electric cars, it went from 56:44 in 2012 to 60:40 in 2015, and rose ...
La Jamais Contente on display at the Paris Motor Show 2018 "La Jamais Contente" Detail: rear wheel, reconstruction of Museum Autovision, Altlußheim, Germany. La Jamais Contente (French pronunciation: [la ʒamɛ kɔ̃tɑ̃t]; English: The Never Contented) was the first road vehicle to go over 100 kilometres per hour (62 mph).
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]
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).
Nikola Tesla was a famous 20th century Serbian-American scientist who is most famous for designing the alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. The world-famed engineer could speak in ...
In May 2015, Tesla started selling refurbished Model S cars in the U.S. [74] and within a month sold 1,600 cars. [75] As of July 2017, over 80 used Model S and Model X cars were for sale, with either a four-year, 50,000-mile warranty [76] or a two-year, 100,000-mile warranty for vehicles above 50,000 miles.
The Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974 (ECOA), signed by President Gerald Ford 50 years ago on Oct. 28, 1974, changed that. It prevented creditors from discriminating against an applicant ...
Wednesday marks the 50th anniversary of the first-ever "beep." By that we mean the first scan of a barcode — a "scanniversary" if you will. (Scripps News)