Hardly a modern invention, the electric car has a long history. Interest has boomeranged over the years based on consumer trends and economics.

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Electric vehicles haven’t only become newsworthy in the 21st century. The Tennessean, part of the USA TODAY Network, has been covering EVs for more than a hundred years. On March 21, 1915, The ...

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The all-electric Cayenne comes out swinging with a four-digit power output and a claimed sub-10-second quarter-mile time.

It was the most reliable car he had ever driven — that's how Kris Trexler remembered his General Motors EV1. "It was just a car that I took home, plugged in at night, got up the next morning — it was ...