An electric vehicle (EV) is a motor vehicle whose propulsion is powered fully or mostly by electricity.[1] EVs encompass a wide range of transportation modes, including road and rail vehicles, electric boats and submersibles, electric aircraft and electric spacecraft. Early electric vehicles first came into existence in the late 19th century, when the Second Industrial Revolution brought forth electrification and mass utilization of DC and AC electric motors. Using electricity was among the pref

Startup Archive on Instagram: "“My interest in electric cars goes back 20 years to when I was in college,” Elon explains in this 2010 interview. “In fact, the original reason I came out to Silicon Valley was to go to Stanford to get a PhD in applied physics and material science to develop advanced energy storage technologies for electric vehicles.” After dropping out of his PhD program to build Zip2 and PayPal in the dot com boom, Elon got another chance to work on electric vehicles: “The thing