Germany, the U.S., Japan, and Italy all threw themselves into researching and developing an electric car. Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu also began R & D on such a machine in 1973, so it can be considered one of the first places to have begun research on the voltaic vehicle.
德、美、日、義等國率先投入研發電動車，新竹清華大學也於民國六十二年開始研發電動車，也算是電動車研究的先進之一。