Working out who invented the car is a long and winding ... "At the beginning of the 20th Century, electric cars were very briefly more popular than internal combustion engine cars in America.

In fact, the world's first full-scale electric car actually beat Daimler's invention to the punch by a few years. The first true electric car is credited to a German inventor called Andreas ...

After several decades when electric vehicles were a real alternative to combustion engine cars, most companies that made EVs had gone out of business by the 1920s. In the 1930s, there were hardly ...

However, that presented little problem because Edison had already invented the alkaline storage battery in 1901 and spent years perfecting it before placing it in the 1912 Edison electric car.

Edison and his electric car in 1913. Even 90 years after his death, Thomas Edison is still a household name. Why not? He invented — or at least popularized — quite a number of things we take ...