How Laptops Brought EVs Back From The Dead

Think electric cars are a shiny new innovation? Think again. *What Other Tech Might Reshape Transportation Forever? Read here:* 🔗 https://clickhubspot.com/711830 Your great-great-grandma might’ve been rolling around in an EV over 120 years ago. In fact, by 1900, a third of all U.S. cars were electric. So why did they vanish for nearly a century — and what brought them roaring back? In this video, we rewind the EV timeline: from Robert Anderson’s 1830s battery-powered carriage… to London’s electric taxis… to Tesla stuffing 6,831 laptop batteries into its first Roadster. This isn't the birth of EVs. It's the EV renaissance. The Everything Everywhere podcast was super helpful in researching this story. For more about the history of EVs, check out this episode from them: https://everything-everywhere.com/the-history-of-electric-cars/ Subscribe to The Hustle: 🔗 https://clickhubspot.com/vu3l Get the 5-minute newsletter keeping 2M+ innovators in the loop 🔗 https://clickhubspot.com/3kln About HubSpot: HubSpot is a customer platform that provides education, software, and support to help businesses grow better. The platform includes marketing, sales, service, commerce, operations, and website management products that start free and scale to meet our customers’ needs at any stage of growth. Today, thousands of customers around the world use HubSpot’s powerful and easy-to-use tools and apps to attract, engage, and delight customers. #TheHustle #HubSpot