Thomas Edison's 1912 electric car restored; hits the streets once again. Back in 1912, Thomas Edison, the mastermind behind the lightbulb, set out with plans to reinvent the automobile.

Edison's car might not be much of a performance machine compared to even the tardiest of modern EVs but with two 15-volt batteries and a 30-volt electric motor, its top speed of 25 miles per hour ...

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 ...

Here are some cool photos of electric cars from the turn of the century.. That's Thomas Edison in the photo at right, standing by GE’s Mercury Arc Rectifier. The car was considered “the most ...

Thomas Edison's nickel-iron battery for electric cars could get a modern revival based on a fast-charging version made at Stanford University.

That Henry Ford and Thomas Edison were good friends late in their lives is well-known. They camped together, presented each other with lavish gifts, even owned homes adjacent to each other. Many ...

At the turn of the 20th Century, Thomas Edison invented a battery with the unusual quirk of producing hydrogen. Now, 120 years later, the battery is coming into its own.

Despite the fact early electric cars outperformed their internal-combustion competitors, Thomas Edison was seriously impressed by Henry Ford's gasoline-powered Quadricycle of 1894. "Young man ...

Excited about your new electric vehicle? Thomas Edison would be, too. He tried to produce electric vehicles for Ford around 1900. Petroleum-based vehicles dashed his dreams of the electric car, and… ...

Thomas Edison with the Edison Electric Co.'s EV in 1913 In 1900, Thomas Edison was standing in lower Manhattan waiting to take a ferry back to Jersey City, N.J. The bustling, commercial ...

The 1901 Columbia Electric car. Heritage Images / Getty Images. 1903: Thomas Edison creates a nickel-iron battery for his electric vehicles, which could be charged twice as fast as the lead-acid ...