Back in 1912, Thomas Edison, the mastermind behind ... and spent years perfecting it before placing it in the 1912 Edison electric car. Edison built three prototype electric cars in 1912 to ...

The electric car is nothing new. Ninety years ago, Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, two of America's greatest innovators, tried building one and failed. Daniel Strohl of Hemmings Blog tells us how ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dr. Ferdinand Porsche, the father of the man who founded the car company, developed a one-of-a-kind electric vehicle known as the Egger-Lohner C.2 Phaeton. Thomas Edison purchased an electric ...

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

On New Year's Eve, 1879, Thomas Edison flipped the switch on the first ... washing machines, and even electric cars. The only thing holding them back is their higher upfront cost, which many ...