Electric vehicles were invented in the mid-1800s and held the vehicular land speed record until around 1900. The high cost and low top speed of electric vehicles compared to later internal combustion vehicles caused a worldwide decline in their use, and only relatively recently have they re-emerged into the public eye.

External links

• http://www.newton.mec.edu/brown/te/ALTERNATIVE_FUEL/TIMELINE/timeline.html
• http://www.econogics.com/ev/evhistry.htm (Extensive)
• Hybrid-Vehicle.org: Early Electric Cars
• Analysis by Richard H. Schallenberg for the IEEE Transactions on Education
• 1997 Disseration by David A. Kirsch, Stanford University
• 1955 business analysis of early electric vehicles by John B. Rae, Associate Professor of History, MIT
• History and Directory of Electric Cars from 1834 - 1987
• Short Electric, and other Vehicle History
• Mikes Railway History, 1935 Electric Traction
• http://www.hybridcars.com/history.html some Electric information as well.

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