Electric cars remained popular until advances in internal-combustion engine

Electric cars remained popular until advances in internal-combustion engine (ICE) cars and mass production of cheaper gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles led to a decline. ICE cars' much quicker refueling times and cheaper production-costs made them more popular. However, a decisive moment came with the introduction in 1912 of the electric starter motor^[30] that replaced other, often laborious, methods of starting the ICE, such as hand-cranking.

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  Gustave Trouvé's personal electric vehicle (1881), the world's first publicly presented full-scale electric car

 
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  Early electric car built by Thomas Parker - photo from 1895^[31]

 
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  "La Jamais Contente", 1899

 
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  NASA's Lunar Roving Vehicles were battery-driven

 
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  The General Motors EV1, one of the cars introduced due to a California Air Resources Board (CARB) mandate, had a range of 260 km (160 miles) with NiMH batteries in 1999.

 
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  The Tesla Roadster helped inspire the modern generation of electric vehicles.

Modern electric cars

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