To provide some context, Popular Mechanics notes that, "The history of the electric car stretches way, way back—almost 200 years at this point. The electric car has a longer history than both the steam and gasoline-powered car, and came about... two decades after the first steam locomotives hit the rails. It's a contentious point, but many point to the work of Hungarian Benedictine priest and inventor Ányos Jedlik as the first person to try strapping an electric engine to four wheels in 1828. This GIF [see below]... takes you through that long history, including looks at the Lohner Electric Chaise in 1898, the Henney Kilowatt from 1959, AMC's Amitron from 1968, right up to Elon Musk's attempt to make the electric car available to the masses in the Tesla Model 3."