Asia Cleantech worked with government agencies to bring the first electric vehicles to Singapore.
In 1928, Jacob Schick obtained a patent for his "shaving implement" -- the first electric razor.
In this excerpt, Eric Clapton writes about his first electric guitar, which he got as a teenager.
Albert is a development mechanical engineer working on what his company hopes will be Croatia's first electric car.
That same year, the Walker brothers in Philadelphia invented the first electric dishwasher.
Also, eStar is the first electric truck designed as an electric vehicle from the ground up, as opposed to a retrofit.
In 1914, the first electric traffic lights were installed, in Cleveland, Ohio.
The first electric cars of this model fitted with Siemens electric motors will be on the test tracks as early as the end of this year.
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To commemorate the anniversary a special service will run on Sunday 13 January, which will include a steam locomotive and one of the first electric engines.
The 126-year-old diversified technology and industrial firm has been committed to sustainability since day one, when its founder, Warren S. Johnson, invented the first electric room thermostat.
Better Place, which was founded a few miles from Tesla Motors in Palo Alto, has spent the past few years buildings its first electric car charging networks in Israel and Denmark.
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One of the considerations was the relative safety of direct current - the first electric chair seems to have been built (and then used) to prove that alternating current was more of a killer.
When it goes on sale next summer, the Spark EV is expected to have among the best EV battery range in its segment and be the first electric vehicle to offer SAE Combo DC Fast Charging capability, enabling the Spark EV to reach 80-percent battery charge in just 20 minutes.
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And OK, the first few electric vehicles from the likes of Tesla and Nissan are on the roads.
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The first BBC Electric Proms was held two years ago when Damon Albarn and Paul Simonon's The Good, The Bad and The Queen played their debut live show.
Peugeot is planning to launch the first diesel electric hybrid.
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This past Memorial Day in Atlanta, City Council opened Atlanta's first Neighborhood Electric Vehicle Charging Station to the public in honor of those who have been killed in Operations Iraqi Freedom, New Dawn and Enduring Freedom.
Bearing the Mercedes star as an unmistakable trademark, the B-Class Electric Drive will be launched first in the USA at the beginning of 2014, where it will be the first luxury battery electric car from Mercedes-Benz in the market.
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Nissan North America Inc. will deliver its first all-electric Leaf today to a young tech executive who happened to be the first U.S. resident to reserve one of the new plug-in hatchbacks.
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Last week, Ford announced that the 2012 Focus Electric would be the pace car at the Richmond 400, making it the first all-electric pace car to ever lead the field for a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race.
He founded the Kamol Sukosol Co. in 1939 to sell General Electric radio sets (a dozen in the first transaction) and electric appliances.
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West paints other trains, including the Steam, Gas turbine, Electric, as well as first through sixth Generation Diesel Electric Locomotives.
Around this time next year, General Motorswill unveil its first all-electric car since the EV-1.
Bath's play in the first half was electric and their offloading and back-line moves had Brian Ashton's influence all over it.
The first hydro-electric power station was set up in Mysore in 1902.
And Volvo's V60, which the company says is the world's first diesel-electric plug-in hybrid in production, offers a package of solutions to such drivers, he insists.
The train stopped on a bridge near the village of Grdelica, 200 miles (320 kilometers) south of Belgrade, after a first missile cut electric power at 11:40 a.m. local time, authorities said.
Spark EV is the first all-electric vehicle in North America to offer optional SAE Combo DC Fast Charge capability, which can charge the battery to 80 percent of capacity in about 20 minutes.
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