"Edison is going to ask for the moon, and we're going to say, 'no, dial it back.'" Already this year, the CPUC voted to allow ...

His development of alkaline storage batteries soon became his most profitable invention, even if they weren’t used to power electric cars like he originally thought. Edison received a patent for ...

It is Thomas Edison's electric pen. By the time he got around ... then prints his own newspaper from the baggage car. Eccentric Edison sleeps fully clothed on his laboratory floor.

his father was toiling on efforts to perfect an electric car with Henry Ford; it’s believed Ford subjected the Ecometer to a battery of tests so that he wouldn’t risk offending Edison. Thomas ...

"This guy," Munger tells Fortune, "is a combination of Thomas Edison and Jack Welch ... primarily by selling electric cars, as well as a leader in the fast-growing solar power industry.

"This guy," Munger tells Fortune, "is a combination of Thomas Edison and Jack Welch ... primarily by selling electric cars, as well as a leader in the fast-growing solar power industry.

Dubbed Team Edison, the group will provide overall direction on electric car strategy ... as Henry Ford and Thomas Edison became friends in 1896. However, the idea of a rivalry between Thomas ...

Thomas Alva Edison lit up the world with his invention of the electric light. Without him ... Thomas was fired when he accidentally set fire to the floor of the baggage car. Thomas then worked for ...

Ryan and Deike contacted Thomas Edison, best known as the inventor of the incandescent ... The original goal of Edison's battery was to power electric cars. In the early 1900s, when he was developing ...

Thomas Edison invented the alkaline battery ... Essentially it said, "The electric car is dead." ...

And then there’s Studebaker, which had built wagons and carriages in the 19th century but entered the 20th as an electric-car manufacturer. That’s Thomas Edison aboard his own 1902 Studebaker ...