24 Aug '12, 6pm

In Focus: Electric Vehicle Myths

In Focus: Electric Vehicle Myths

What, with soaring gas prices and enhanced environmental awareness these days, electric cars have generated quite a bit of excitement and attention since General Motors’ modern day model premiered at the 1990 Los Angeles Auto Show. While the concept is as old as cars themselves (Robert Anderson, a Scottish inventor in the 1800s, created an electricity-propelled “horseless carriage” that ran on primary cell batteries), the technology of the late 1800s and early 1900s simply wasn’t advanced enough to engender a feasible electric car model; so fossil fuel-powered vehicles won the day and remain the most popular type by far. Rest assured that the world of gas-powered cars will remain viable for a while; gas stations and things like a rover fuel pump or etc. will still be common sights in our landscape. Yet in 2001, when Toyota debuted in mass quantities its game-changing Prius...

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