Did you know that in 1884, the world's first mass-produced electric car capable of being reproduced and sold to the public was unveiled?

Did you know that at the beginning of 1900, a third of the vehicles on the road were electric? They began to disappear rapidly around 1920 with the introduction of gasoline.

Ferdinand Porsche, the founder of the eponymous sports car, produced an electric vehicle dubbed the "P" in 1898, before creating the world's first hybrid vehicle, which ran on both electricity and an internal combustion engine.

So what's new about the fact that the entire current generation of electric vehicle fanboys are obsessed with the fact that some companies could already make them in 1884? However, gasoline engines killed EVs off the face of America at the time!

Mercedes-Benz also offered an electric model, the Mercedes Mixte, in 1906. This car was adopted as a taxi in cities and even became a racing car in 1907.