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.

For home charging – which Thomas doesn’t support for now but for the purpose of comparison – one would have to drive some 40,000 miles to make back the investment in a charger. Parking lots that ...

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… ...