Evc prototype 18/18/2023 Another Scot, Robert Davidson of Aberdeen, built a prototype electric locomotive in 1837. Batteries (galvanic cells) were not yet rechargeable, so it was more parlor trick (“Look! No horse nor ox, yet it moves!”) than a transportation device. Start in the 1830s, with Scotland’s Robert Anderson, whose motorized carriage was built sometime between 1832 and ’39. A lack of historical perspective sometimes leads to misunderstandings of how things came to be as they are now, so let’s take the long view of the road that got us here. In fact, electric cars appeared long before the internal-combustion sort, and dreamers have never stopped trying to make them work both on the road and as a business proposition. ![]() Electric cars have been around a lot longer than today’s Tesla Motors or even the General Motors EV1 of the late 1990s.
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