China calls them the “new three” — electric vehicles, solar panels and lithium-ion batteries — a set of technologies to replace the country’s previous export focus on furniture, clothing and household ...

RACINE, WI—Before the age of the modern automobile, an inventor in Racine named Reverend Dr. John Wesley Carhart designed and operated the first light self-propelled highway vehicle in the United ...

Hardly a modern invention, the electric car has a history tracing back all the way to the mid-1800s. Interest in technology has boomeranged over the years based on both consumer trends and economic ...