The world's first electric car... built by a British inventor in 1884

The world's first electric car may have been built by a Victorian inventor.

Newly unearthed photos show what appears to be an electric vehicle built in the year 1884.

To the modern eye the machine looks like a horseless carriage, but sitting aboard at the wheel is the 19th century inventor Thomas Parker.


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