The electric car has been around for just as long as the automobiles we see on the streets of today. The first electric carriage was created before the first Model T was in 1908. Electric taxis were running around in New York City in 1897. Although thirteen years later the electric car lost the appeal when it wasn't commercially sound to keep producing them after the assembly line and the Model T came out. Yet many years later the need for people to move to renewable resources, instead of the fossil fuels that cars have been running on through combustible engines, grew more and more apparent. Advances in the electric car area steadily grew but continued to run into road blocks. The ability to make a viable and profitable car that ran on electricity was a struggle but what companies did in response was impressive. They created a car that ran on gasoline and electricity, the hybrids. These cars help people use less gasoline and burning through the oil reserves and turned their cars into their very own power plant. The cars charge batteries that could then be turned on and http://www2.hawaii.edu/~jonip/
power the cars engine for a limited amount of time. Now this does not solve the problem of completely eliminating gasoline completely from the transportation scene. Although more advances in the batteries has progressed this from not being viable to being in the near future. The company Tesla Motors has been working on this problem for some time. In 2006 they released their sporty Tesla Roadster in California. Now in today's day and age they now have their Tesla Model S out and is available by July of this year, 2014. These new electric cars can go almost just as far as a normal combustion engine car can go on a full tank. The Model S can go from zero to sixty in 4.2 seconds as a car powered only be electricity.