EVs haven’t only become newsworthy in the 21st century. The Tennessean, part of the USA TODAY Network, has been covering them for more than a hundred years.

On October 8, 1883, the Tissandier brothers flew the first electric-powered airship, pioneering electric propulsion in ...

Discover the surprising origins of Porsche in the 1898 Egger-Lohner C.2 Phaeton, an electric car designed by Ferdinand ...

Bowing to auto industry and oil sector pressure, California backed off a revolutionary mandate that would've required 2% of all new cars sold in the state to be zero-emission. That gave General Motors ...

It's called the Ferrari Elettrica. And it's not just an EV of an existing Ferrari, but a whole new approach to supercar performance.

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The first locomotive to successfully use an AC (alternating current) three-phase asynchronous traction motor drive system was the German DE2500 diesel-electric in 1971, built by Henschel-BBC. DB ...

Mercedes is betting big on axial flux electric motors for its future electric AMG performance vehicles — but don’t expect the tech to be limited to low-production products from Affalterbach. What are ...

During the Technology and Innovation Workshop, Ferrari unveiled the chassis, ready for production, and the powertrain of the ...