Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Aurich Lawson) Earth Day is April 22nd, and its usual message—take care of our planet—has been given added urgency by the challenges highlighted in the latest IPCC report. This year, Ars is taking a look at the technologies we normally cover, from cars to chipmaking, and finding out how we […]
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 […]