This three-part publication is comprised of Papers 28, 29, and 30 from Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology. They are titled as follows: 1. The electrochemical cell and the ...

BRATTLEBORO — Technology and innovation bring about change. One hundred and thirty years ago the arrival of an electric trolley system transformed much of the Brattleboro community. In 1895 Edward C.

There is little doubt that electric vehicles (EVs) will have a significant place in the future, but what's less known is that they also had a place in the past. During the 19th century, pioneers like ...

You might think that electric vehicles are only a relatively recent invention, starting more or less with the General Motors EV1 but only really taking off after Tesla entered the game and launched ...

More than a century before Teslas hit the road, battery-powered taxicabs zipped silently through the streets of Manhattan. New York City’s first taxis, the battery-powered Electrobats, hit the streets ...

Peggy Singlemann visits Jim Coate at The Electric Tractor Store in Waynesboro to uncover the history of battery powered lawn care equipment and learn how the technology almost caught on 50 years ago.

Electric vehicles haven’t only become newsworthy in the 21st century. The Tennessean, part of the USA TODAY Network, has been covering EVs for more than a hundred years. On March 21, 1915, The ...

It was the most reliable car he had ever driven — that's how Kris Trexler remembered his General Motors EV1. "It was just a car that I took home, plugged in at night, got up the next morning — it was ...

When General Electric split into three separate businesses last month, the transition marked the end of a storied company that was for decades a fixture of American life — providing millions of ...

In a groundbreaking achievement, electric vehicles in Australia recently restored power to a grid during a blackout. Triggered by a severe storm that disrupted the electricity supply to tens of ...