America's First Police Car was Electric.

BUILT IN OHIO. STOLEN BY A MOB. DUMPED IN A CANAL.

Long before the hype cycles, the TED Talks, and the smug glow of Silicon Valley, there was Akron. A tough, grimy town that smelled like burning rubber and cheap whiskey. In 1899, this place—of all places—became the birthplace of something no one saw coming: the first electric police car in the United States.

Yeah. Electric. In the nineteenth century.