The claim that a Zimbabwean inventor created an electric car that doesn't need to be charged is FALSE, based on our research. The claim stems from a 2015 event that included a variety of ...

Hardly a modern invention, the electric car has a history tracing back all the way to the mid-1800s. Interest in technology has boomeranged over the years based on both consumer trends and ...

A false story about a Zimbabwean inventor defying the laws of physics with an electric car that never needs to be recharged is re-circulating on social media.

The Dynosphere (sometimes spelled Dynasphere) was invented in 1932 by JH Purves. Some of the Dynosphere models ran on gas, but the single-person model was electric.

The advent of the electric starter (invented by Charles Kettering at Dayton Engineering, first for the 1912 Cadillac) did away with the hand-crank problem for gas cars once it spread through the ...

Electric cars date back to the dawn of the electric motor, when Hungarian inventor Ányos Jedlik fitted his "lightning-magnetic self-rotor" of 1827 to a toy car. But it wasn't until the 1880s that ...

GM's EV1 Electric Car Invented Many Technologies that are Commonplace on Today's EVs Developing this unconventional car a quarter-century ago didn't lead to a sales blockbuster, but it did bring a ...

"World's First Electric Car Built by Victorian Inventor in 1884." 24 April 2009. By Dan Evon. Dan Evon is a former writer for Snopes. Article Tags. Seattle Automobile Electric Vehicles.

The inventor, Dan Zethraeus, reportedly confirmed that the crude device is, in fact, part of an experiment to develop a new way to power electric cars directly from the road.