With gas prices soaring, more drivers are looking to purchase electric vehicles. But EVs are nothing new. They've been around for over a century. Check out the history of the electric vehicle.

Gasoline and electric cars have long competed with one another. While the modern battle between these two must-have vehicles seems to be a fresh rivalry, their story goes back farther than you ...

Electric vehicles have been around since car manufacturing began. Robert Davidson built the first practical electric vehicle – a 4.9m truck driven by electro-magnetic motors – in Scotland in 1837.

Electric vehicles were all the rage in the early 1900s, but they were soon abandoned. What happened and what can the history of EVs tell us about the future of transportation?

While its new 2015 Volkswagen e-Golf will be the first-ever plug-in electric VW sold in the U.S., the German carmaker has a surprisingly long history of prototype electric cars. Two weeks ago ...

Photo of Thomas Edison with an electric car in 1913. National Museum of American History In 1899 and 1900, electric vehicles outsold all other types of cars.

A graphic shared online may have correctly identified electric vehicles from 1917 but misses the mark on the history of electric cars.

Despite using a numbered naming system for its electric ID family since 2018, VW bosses confirm it will transition its ...

Rather than being new, electric cars have played – and are now winning - the long game. Electric vehicles, we are often told, are the future. A whole range of carmakers and nations have plans to ...

But electric automobiles are nothing new. They actually have a rich history in the US and, at one point, were even the dominant type of car. Here's a look at how battery powered cars evolved over ...