"Electricity is the thing. There are no whirring and grinding gears with their numerous levers to confuse, no dangerous and evil-smelling gasoline and no noise."
- Thomas Edison

1910 Advertisement for EVs:


Thomas Edison with his first EV "The Edison Baker"- 1895



Camille Jenatzy, 1899; the first person to exceed 100 km/h in a car (an electric car)