Wow ...

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... I did not know this:

Meet the Roberts electric car. Built in 1896, it gets a solid 40 miles to the charge — exactly the mileage Chevrolet advertises for the Volt — the much-touted $31,645 electric car General Motors CEO Dan Akerson called “not a step forward, but a leap forward.”

Yes, some 115 years before the Chevy Volt, it still gets the same number of miles per charge as the modern Volt.

Seems like electric vehicles don't develop at all.

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