The New Yorker writer James Thurber mentioned electric cars several times in his 1933 autobiography "My Life and Hard Times". (If you haven't read it, it's a re

The New Yorker writer James Thurber mentioned electric cars several times in his 1933 autobiography "My Life and Hard Times". (If you haven't read it, it's a real classic!) In the chapter "Draft Board Nights" his grandfather, who is a Civil War veteran, is trying to enlist in the Great War and takes his grandmother's electric car to go find General William Tecumseh Sherman. "[A] man who (or so he often told us) had driven a four-horse McCormick reaper when he was five years old did not intend to be thrown by an electric runabout."