July 27, 1888: Electric Tricycle Jolts Proper Bostonians
1888: Philip W. Pratt demonstrates the very first American electric tricycle. Pratt’s e-trike was built for him by Fred M. Kimball of, naturally, the Fred M. Kimball Company. Pratt took the editor of...
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Dec. 4, 1996: GM Delivers EV1 Electric Car
1996: General Motors begins delivery of the EV1, an electric vehicle that is a technical triumph for the time. It generates passion-fueled controversy that still reverberates today. The technological...
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Sept. 13, 1899: New Yorker Becomes First U.S. Pedestrian Killed by Car
Henry Bliss alights from a streetcar on the Upper West Side and steps into automotive history when he's hit and killed -- by a cab, of course -- making him the first person in North America to die this...
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