The history of electric cars goes back a lot further than Tesla and Elon Musk.Indeed, the 'golden age' of electric cars was over 150 years ago.Discover how electric cars have evolved, why some people say they aren't as green as people think they are, and we run the calculations to see what the true environmental cost of electric car ownership is.
Electric vs. Petrol vs. Steam
The Golden Age of the electric car
Electric: The lady's choice
The arrival of the Ford Model T
The oil crises
Tesla & The Roadster
Criticisms of electric cars: production, usage, and resource extraction
Calculating the true environmental cost of an electric car
Tesla's share price
Betting against electric?
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