In an effort to reduce emissions, governments and countries around the world are attempting to electrify as much as they can as quickly as they can. In the U.S., this raises a very important and ...
In 1900, Thomas Edison was standing in lower Manhattan waiting to take a ferry back to Jersey City, N.J. The bustling, commercial neighborhood was overrun with horse-drawn carts. Edison, ever the ...
Some say it’s the most complicated machine ever built. We rely on it not just each day, but each moment of each day. It reaches into our homes, factories, offices and stores. And at times it’s ...
Author of the new book, Edison & the Electric Chair: A Story of Light and Death, Mark Essig joins Guest Host Patt Morrison to discuss the race to define which electric current would take hold in ...
Excited about your new electric vehicle? Thomas Edison would be, too. He tried to produce electric vehicles for Ford around 1900. Petroleum-based vehicles dashed his dreams of the electric car, and ...
An industry in transition -- Early competition -- Monopolists -- The golden era and shattered momentum -- Partial competition -- Stresses -- Entrepreneurs -- Modern technologies -- Barriers to ...
Bolstering Ford's previously announced plan to offer a 300-mile electric SUV by 2020, the company has formed an internal group to plan further electric vehicles. Dubbed Team Edison, the group will ...