Category: Electric cars

The first electric-car president? Ike Eisenhower liked them

1914 Rauch-Lang electric car and President Dwight EisenhowerAt least a couple of presidents have been drivers of electric cars, but they're not all in the recent past. Our 34th President, Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower, may have been one of the first. Long before Ike became perhaps the 20th century's most famous general, Eisenhower drove around in an early electric car that belonged to his in-laws. John...