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Welcome to the history of electric vehicles site, the first online archive created to encourage electric vehicle enthusiasts to help preserve the recent history of electric vehicles. This project offers a unique opportunity for electric car owners, drivers, and enthusiasts to chronicle their own history by adding to an online archive. Drivers and owners of electric vehicles can contribute to the growing online archive, and people interested in the history of technology can use this site to learn about the history of an emerging technology. Sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, this site is a non-profit historical research project intended solely for non-commercial use.
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This site examines the history of vehicles (mostly automobiles) powered by electricity rather than by an internal combustion engine. Providing an overview of the technology and its development, this site includes several recent articles on electric vehicles as well as important historical pieces. Most significantly, the site encourages current and former owners and drivers of electric vehicles to contribute their recollections to a lasting archive. That growing archive contains stories from the early days of electric-powered vehicles from engineers, early adopters and others involved with their production and use. The site is useful for understanding the goals, attitudes, successes and failures of current and former electric vehicle advocates.