Hardly a modern invention, the electric car has a long history. Interest has boomeranged over the years based on consumer trends and economics.

For the longest time, people who wanted to learn how to drive had to do it using a stick shift or a manual transmission. Before the turn of the century, most cars came with this type of transmission.

A Warminster man is being remembered for “just missing” his chance to be the inventor of the first working automobile. Carl ...