Even Thomas Edison got in on the battery game with a nickel-iron storage battery that debuted in 1900. Around the time of ...

But Edison’s car used a nickel-iron battery that had been around since 1899, the work of Swede Ernst Waldemar Jungner, who also invented the NiCad battery. Edison had a deal in place to produce ...

The stock battery was lead acid, while an Edison nickel-iron battery was offered for $600 (over $18,000 today, adjusting for inflation). He's more than 100 years old. Gasoline was the go-to fuel ...