The car you drive years in the future might run off a battery being invented in a lab today. Companies in China and the United States are racing to perfect and scale up next-generation technologies.

The first electric vehicle was an electric tricycle plying ... the work of Swede Ernst Waldemar Jungner, who also invented the NiCad battery. Edison had a deal in place to produce electric ...

Introduced in 1997 and the most popular hybrid-electric, the Prius automatically charges the battery while moving ... See electric aviation and electric vehicle types. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR ...