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Ev's Land on The moon
When NASA wanted to take pictures and videos of the moon they commissioned a vehicle company to build them "a car for the moon". Since the moon was airless an electric vehicle it was a perfect fit and thus it was used in the Apollo 15 mission. https://www.caranddriver.com/features/g43480930/history-of-electric-cars/ -
The come-up of Ev's
The industry of electric vehicles picked up around the years 1975 and It was when the Enfield 8000 was produced, sadly the car was discontinued shortly after not getting the media attention, and the car was scrapped. https://www.treehugger.com/history-of-the-electric-car-trials-and-triumphs-5193009 -
Ev's find relevance
The "Glorified Golf Cart" was created with 2 doors, 2 front seats a riveting top speed of 25 miles an hour with a 2.5 horsepower motor. This car produced 4,444 units and became the largest produced electric vehicle. https://www.caranddriver.com/features/g43480930/history-of-electric-cars/ -
The Chevrolet Chevette
The Chevrolet Chevette was created to one-up the most produced car in the EV industry. Increasing the top speed up to 30 miles an hour, and could drive 50 miles on one charge even though next-gen batteries were supposed to push the distance even further. https://www.caranddriver.com/features/g43480930/history-of-electric-cars/ -
GM's EV1
The General Motor EV1 was one of the biggest EVs ever created giving the vehicle state-of-the-art technology along with a 2 door version and a large scale SUV variety. https://www.caranddriver.com/features/g43480930/history-of-electric-cars/ -
The First Electric Sports Car
Alan Cocconi created what most researchers would call the first-ever electric sports car in EV history. It was way above the standard of past EV vehicles. Exhorting an astounding 201 horsepower combined with lead acid batteries for extra distance, these attributes would allow the car to accelerate to 60mph in only 3.7 seconds! https://www.caranddriver.com/features/g43480930/history-of-electric-cars/ -
Half Bike Half Car
The Corbin Sparrow is an electric vehicle that is not as speedy or nearly as fashionable as the sports car 2 years ago, although it does still hold its own with a top speed of 70mph and a range of about 40 miles but that's not why the Sparrow was popular. The car was practically half a car and half a bike having only three wheels. The company would later go into bankruptcy after selling 300 units of the vehicle. https://www.caranddriver.com/features/g43480930/history-of-electric-cars/ -
Tesla Finally Enters the Industry
Tesla Motors became a well-known company back in 2008 with Co-founder Elon Musk by their side. The company created the Tesla Roadster a well-known electric vehicle. The car took off selling around 2400 units in just four years! Despite the $109,000 price tag. https://www.caranddriver.com/features/g43480930/history-of-electric-cars/ -
Smart Electric Vehicles
The Smart Fortwo Electric Drive was a vehicle created in 2010 an astonishing accomplishment for society still entertaining the idea of electric vehicles. The EV Industry was still holding a very skeptical stigma and not many families put their faith in EVs being that the gas prices almost 14 years ago were still very low and affordable. https://www.caranddriver.com/features/g43480930/history-of-electric-cars/ -
Nissan Enters the Industry
The "Leaf" as Nissan calls it was one of their first EVs on the market. Using the technology founded by other companies or even other EVs entirely. This vehicle was very popular surpassing the Tesla Roadster in sales with over 300,000 in just January! The vehicle was revised in 2016 and made much safer and more convincing as an everyday vehicle. https://www.caranddriver.com/features/g43480930/history-of-electric-cars/ -
The Tesla Model S
Tesla is back and better than ever creating the newest and greatest EV, The Tesla Model S. The vehicle was revised and in 2017 was capable of going over 300 miles in just a single charge! Tesla also expanded their supercharger network to make the EVs readily available for every family across the nation. https://www.caranddriver.com/features/g43480930/history-of-electric-cars/ -
Evs that didn't go so well
What we never hear about is the failures, the people who put their products on the line for the greater good and to show others not to make the same mistakes as them. The Coda, Aptera, and Bryton were some of the most common failures as over 850 million dollars were invested in the company before it went fully under. https://www.caranddriver.com/features/g43480930/history-of-electric-cars/ -
How EVs came back to Mainstream media
In 2017 close to the Tesla Model S revision to improve their vehicle Chevrolet created a new EV called the Chevrolet Bolt with a distance of 200 miles per charge along with 60 kWh batteries and a high powered liquid-cooled motors silenced the haters of EV which were called "Golf cart Jokers" https://www.caranddriver.com/features/g43480930/history-of-electric-cars/ -
Trucks Go EV
The Rivian RT1 was the first electric Truck to join the league of EVs. The vehicle had an impressive 831 horsepower hitting 60mph in just 3.3 seconds, tackling off-road trails with ease and allowing for long outdoor adventures relying on its 128.9 kWh Battery to provide the Rivian with 314 miles of uninterrupted exploration. https://www.caranddriver.com/features/g43480930/history-of-electric-cars/ -
The Fix to "Range Anxiety"
The Brand New Air Sedan was created during the peak of 2021 people were complaining that the fear of losing juice before being able to charge their car was terrifying and stopped them from going on road trips with their EVs. The Air Sedan broke the normal 300-mile charge with an astounding 520 miles per charge. https://www.caranddriver.com/features/g43480930/history-of-electric-cars/