Thomas Jr. dreamed of his invention being installed in every car in the nation. It failed to pass basic performance tests.

Many people know Elon Musk as the face of Tesla but, it turns out, the name carries significant meaning. There's something ...

In 2007, Israeli electric car infrastructure startup Better Place toyed with the idea of a robotic arm at its charging stations to plug a cable into the charger on one end and the car on the other, ...

Emily Fisher, 50, a former top executive at the Edison Electric Institute, has been charged alongside her husband with allegedly defacing Tesla automobiles in their northeast Washington neighborhood.

However, inventors and scientists have dabbled with electric-driven carriages since the late 1800s. In 1884, English inventor Thomas Parker created an electric car with a steam generator to ...

Electric innovations past and present: The Hyundai Ioniq 6 that NPR took on a road trip stopped at the Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park in Edison, N.J., on June 11.