The document traces the early history of electric vehicles from 1832 when Robert Anderson invented the first non-rechargeable electric carriage to the early 1900s when electric vehicles outnumbered gasoline-powered vehicles but then declined. Key events include Davenport building the first electric motor in 1835, Planté inventing the lead-acid battery in 1859, and various advancements and production of early electric vehicles, until gasoline-powered vehicles like the Model T in 1908 began mass production and overtook electric vehicles.