> before Henry Ford and the discovery of Texas oil There is a book called Internal Combustion which claims that Henry Ford and Thomas Edison were working toget

> before Henry Ford and the discovery of Texas oil There is a book called Internal Combustion which claims that Henry Ford and Thomas Edison were working together on an electric car but that in 1914 Edison's battery facility was destroyed in a massive blaze of very suspicious origin. With this setback and the beginning of WWI, the electric car was lost. You can read that book and make your own conclusions, of course :)