EV history goes back a few hundred years. The electric battery
has been around for about 2,000 years. The electric vehicle has
been around for about 200 years. Due to slow improvements in
battery technology, the range of many electric vehicles today is
the same as 100 years ago. That is changing though. We are
witnessing history in the making with the EV. The US Congress
has floated a bill that states a firm goal to promote EV
development in all sectors. The bill has teeth, $10 Billion USD
in program incentives. Go Feds! In another boost to EVs, the US
Government will be paying for home EV chargers to be installed.
The Federal subsidy will cover some 4,600 California-based
Coulomb Technologies ChargePoint chargers. In 1910, EVs sold
more than gas powered cars. Although EVs may have had the market
share at the turn of the century, they had a few technical and
performance issues, and a few bad breaks. Ironically, the early
winning internal combustion engine (ICE) ended up using up vast
amounts of fossil fuels w