Although electric cars are thought of as the future of motoring, they’re not actually a new concept. The very first production electric car was built in 1884 by English inventor, Thomas Parker. Parker was responsible for introducing a range of innovations into the UK including the electrification of the London Underground as well as working on electric tramways for a number of cities. By 1897 a fleet of electric taxis was also being used in London. Improvements in petrol and diesel technology marked the end of the popularity of electric cars which has only been revived in the last decade. (source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5212278/Worlds-first-electric-car-built-by-Victorian-inventor-in-1884.html)
As you have just read the invention of an electric vehicle has been around since the 1880's and was cut short because of the evolution of petrol and diesel technology. And since then there has been many itterations of the electric car for example the "Le Jamais Contente" was another electric car built in 1899 and it was the first road vehicle to go over 100kmh courtesy of two 25kW direct-drive Postel Vinay electric motors.
There has been alot more electric cars built since then though and is a very interesting topic to read into as it is very cool to see how the electric car has evolved so much over around 140 years!
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The UK has made steady progress with electric vehicles with over 495,000 ultra-low emission vehicles now on the road across the country, driven by the government’s Road to Zero strategy.
