当时,许多创新者都注意到了电动汽车的巨大需求,并探索了改进技术的方法。例如,同名跑车公司的创始人费迪南德·保时捷(Ferdinand Porsche)在1898年开发了一款名为P1的电动汽车。大约在同一时间,他创造了世界上第一辆混合动力电动汽车-一种由电力和动力驱动的汽车。汽油机。世界上最多产的发明家之一托马斯·爱迪生(Thomas ...
These days, old-school car people are up in arms about the idea that we may have to move away from fossil fuels and make a shift to electric vehicles. This concept isn't even new, as the first electric vehicle that was ever made wasn't a matter of years ago, but over 100. That'...
In France, the Peugeot VLV, the brand's first electric car, was introduced in 1941, and in 1947 Nissan exhibited the Tama, a small vehicle with removable batteries, in Japan. However, it was not until the oil crises of the 1970s (in 1973 and 1979) that the electric car was ...
The first electric cars appeared long before the earliest gas autos, and the history of electric cars is littered with innovative takes on four-wheeled transit.
1891: William Morrison of Des Moines, Iowa, was the first to successfully build an electric car in the United States. 1895: The first automobile race in the United States — a 52-mile "dash" from Chicago to Waukegan, Ill., and back, which took the winner 10 hours 23 minutes (average...
B. D. Ferrel, "History of the Electric Car: 1828 - 1912, from Trouve to Morrison," 2009.B David Ferrel, History of the electric car: 1828 - 1912, from Trouve to Morrison, http://factoidz.com/history-of-the-electric-car-1828-1912-from-trouve-to-morrison/, retrieved July 18, 2009...
CHINA: The world’s largest electric car market China is not only the world’s largest automobile market, with annual sales north of 20 million units a year placing it well ahead of the former champion, the United States.It is also the world’s largest electric car market, with more than...
The “End of the First Half” for NEVs In 2018, BYD's Chairman Wang Chuanfu first introduced the concept of the "two halves" of the NEV market: the first half focused on electrification, while the second half would shift toward smart technologies. Six years later, China’s NEV sector ha...
The Chinese-builtNio EP9(Electric Performance 9) was announced for the first time back in 2016, but despite initial plans, it never became a road-legal vehicle, and the very few people who own one can only enjoy it on the track. Still, the Nio EP9 is an electric supercar that broke...
The Civic GX (Natural Gas) becomes the first and only fully assembly-line-produced CNG passenger car to run on a very low-emission alternative fuel, helping reduce our dependency on oil as well as fuel costs. Going All-Electric Honda introduces the EV Plus, the first all-electric production...