When was the first electric vehicle made and who invented it?

Hardly a modern invention, the electric car has a long history. Interest has boomeranged over the years based on consumer trends and economics.
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Failure Is the Mother of Invention: 5 Cars That Flopped but Created Entire Niches

History loves a winner, but car culture has always had a soft spot for glorious losers. The kind of cars that sold like warm beer at an ice hockey game, yet somehow managed to leave fingerprints all ...
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Pullman progress : the invention and perfection of the Pullman car and Pullman service : influence on the development of America's travel and transport facilities

Unpublished history of the Pullman car. siris_sil_383772 ...
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Vintage magazine article depicts invention linking car brakes to a driver's eyebrows

Popular Mechanics magazine once featured an invention that claimed to allow drivers to control a car's braking system using only their eyebrows. Rating: True (About this rating?) Images of a unique ...