Electric Cars: History and Future

What problem of early electric cars is still a problem today?

• cost
• size
• noise
• all the reason listed

How are hybrid cars different from gasoline-powered cars?

• Hybrid cars use two sources of fuel.

• Hybrid cars cannot carry as many people.
• Hybrid cars are able to go longer distances.
• Hybrid cars are not as fuel efficient as gas-powered cars.

Some laws restrict the amount of harmful __________ that cars can put into the atmosphere as a result of burning fuel.

• breakthroughs
• emissions
• hybrids
• prototypes

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How were car builders affected by the Clean Air Act?

• They looked for more oil.
• They were motivated to build better electric cars.
• They could no longer build gasoline-powered cars.
• They build more gasoline cars.

What might be different today if people had been using electric cars for the past one hundred years, rather than gasoline-powered ones?

• We might not have imported as much oil.
• We might not have as much air pollution.
• We might need to generate more electricity.
• All of the reason listed.

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What is the benefit of electric cars over gasoline-powered cars?

• They are safer.
• They are sold at a cheaper cost.
• They can be powered by energy from renewable resources.
• They can go faster.

If something uses little fuel and makes no waste, it is ______________.

• flamboyant
• efficient 
• dangerous
• pungent

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Who invented the first electric car?

• Gaston Plante

• Camille Faure

• Robert Anderson

• Robert Davidson

Ferdinand Porshe invented the first (a)   car in 1898.

Electric cars were almost extinct by....

• 1912

• 1960

• 1935

• 1920