Third of all cars were electric - 100 years ago!
Incredible photo shows a woman charging an ELECTRIC car 112 years ago
- Pictures show a woman plugging in her electric car to charge in 1922
- Electric cars were popular in the 1920s and even accounted for a third of all cars
Looking at a high-tech electric car like a Tesla, it can be easy to believe that electric vehicles are a recent invention.
Yet, as these photos reveal, the history of the electric car stretches back far longer than we might think.
The photos were snapped way back in 1922 and show a woman dressed in a large hat and gloves posing in a garage with an electric car.
The car in the photos is a Columbia Electric Victoria Phaeton - a type of electric vehicle first produced in 1905.
Bought new, a car like this would have cost $1,600 in 1908, or around $44,000 (£34,803) in modern terms.
Someone plugging in their electric car to charge might seem like a typical scene from modern life. But these photos are anything but modern and were actually taken 112 years ago
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