Why weren’t cars electric from the start?
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Excerpted from A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next. Used with the permission of the publisher, Bloomsbury. Copyright © 2021 by Tom Standage.
Much of the early enthusiasm for the automobile stemmed from its promise to solve the problems associated with horse-drawn
August 21, 2021
