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Electric vehicles died a century ago. Could that happen again?

More than a century before Tesla rolled out its first cars, the Baker Electric Coupe and the Riker Electric Roadster rumbled down American streets. Battery-powered cars were so popular that, for a time, about a third of New York's taxis were electric.
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Forty years ago, the Ford Taurus revolutionized American car design to save an automaker and become a pop-culture icon

Advertised as a “shape and feel we’ve never seen before,” the aerodynamic 1986 Ford Taurus immediately appealed to the driving public. Ford sold more than 200,000 in its first year and more than a million in three. And that was a good thing because Ford was in financial straits and would have gone bankrupt without it. “It looked completely different from any American vehicle at that time,” ...