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Ancient electric cars meet modern EVs at Amelia Island show

This is a 1905 Columbia XXXV Open Drive Brougham, which won best in class for the EVs. This Edwardian monster is a twin-motor design. [credit: Jonathan Gitlin ] Volkswagen provided flights to Jacksonville and three nights in a hotel so we could attend the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. […]

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We got our first ride in the electric Lucid Air sedan

The Lucid Air looks superficially the same as the early prototype we saw in 2017, but much has changed. [credit: Jonathan Gitlin ] Volkswagen provided flights to Jacksonville and three nights in a hotel so we could attend the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. Back in 2017, I got […]

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A brief look at electric vehicles from the dawn of the automobile age

Henry G. Morris and Pedro G. Salom in their 1894 Electrobat automobile, the first commercially produced electric automobile in the United States. [credit: The Outing Magazine, Volume 51, Page 210 ] If it seems that electric cars are the future of the automobile, the same was true more than a century ago. With automakers planning to […]