Lightning in a Throttle: How Three EVs Set Some of the Earliest Auto Racing Records

Electric cars from major manufacturers like Chevy and Nissan as well as startups like Tesla and Lucid Motors are bringing cutting-edge emissions-free technology to modern roads. And Formula E is bringing elite-level all-electric racing to cities worldwide. But as newfangled as these cars seem, they are far from the first. By, like, a century.

Lightning in a Throttle: How Three EVs Set Some of the Earliest Auto Racing Records is an ebook in three acts:

- A proto-hipster who dropped out of Columbia to start an electric vehicle business in Brooklyn

- A speed-crazed Belgian who battled to break the 100 km/h barrier

- An inventor whose inventions sometimes veered off track - literally - and into crowds of spectators