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Victoria Scott

This Honda Was Its First EV—25 Years Before The Prologue: Video

The Honda EV Plus might just be the most important EV you've never heard of. This electric car was the first on the American market to use something besides lead-acid car batteries for power. Instead, it used an innovative nickel-metal hydride battery and a Honda-developed brushless motor for an impressive 81 miles of range—in 1997, a decade before the Nissan Leaf was unveiled.

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