have you heard about EVS or electric vehicles they may seem new to our roadways but what if I told you they've been around for over 100 years hi Learners I'm Mrs mask and yes it's true electric vehicles have been around since the mid 1800s as we learn more about EVS I'll also model or show you how I write short notes about what I read then I'll use my notes and model how to write a summary a summary incl includes the most important ideas from a text and connects them to the central ideas summaries are good to write because they help us better remember what we read this article will teach us a lot of interesting things about electric vehicles so we want to remember what we discover follow along as I read the first part of the article listen closely because after I finish reading we'll list the most important ideas the birth of the electric vehicle it's hard to pinpoint the invention of the electric car to one inventor or country instead it was a series of breakthroughs from the battery to the electric motor in the 1800s that led to the first electric vehicle on the road in the early part of the century innovators in Hungary the Netherlands and the United States including a blacksmith from Vermont began toying with the concept of a battery powered vehicle and created some of the first small scale electric cars while Robert Anderson a British inventor developed the first crude electric herriage around this same time it wasn't until the second half of the 19th century that French and English inventures built some of the first practical electric cars now as a reader I need to remember the most important concept from this paragraph let's list some important phrases we've learned so far not just one inventor of the electric car there was a series of discoveries in battery powered in small scale mid to the late 1800s which is the 19th century the first practical usable electric cars were built now let's continue reading to learn more about the history of electric vehicles here in the US the first successful electric car made its debut around 1890 thanks to William Morrison a chemist who lived in De Mo Iowa his six passenger vehicle capable of a top speed of 14 M an hour was little more than an electrified wagon but it helped spark interest in electric vehicles over the next few years electric vehicles from different automakers began popping up across the US New York City even had a fleet of more than 60 electric taxis by 1900 electric cars were at their Heyday accounting for around a third of all vehicles on the road during the next 10 years they continued to show strong sales I combined my notes into one document there's a lot of notes and now I need your help to make my messy notes make sense let's take all of our notes and write a summary together so we don't forget what we learned now let's think of a sentence we can write that helps to share the ideas we learn let me model this first H how about electric cars are not new and have been around since the mid to late 1800s after a series of discoveries led to their invention what do you think of that sentence now let's right one together in 1890 the first electric car that could go up to 14 M hour were seen in the United States it's okay if we didn't use all of our notes to write the summary it's important to give correct information but we don't have to write every detail now let's write one more sentence to add to the summary more automakers began building electric cars and soon after electric cars were about onethird of all cars on the road now let's combine all three sentences as we read the summary together electric cars are not new and have been around since the mid to late 1800s after a series of discoveries led to their invention in 1890 the first electric car that could go up to 14 M an hour was seen in the United States more automakers began building electric cars and soon after electric cars were about onethird of all cars on the road did we get the most important ideas from the text since we took the main ideas from it we should be able to remember a quick history of electric vehicles writing summaries can seem like a difficult job but if you take good notes and really think about what's important you'll be successful as you're learning about new topics use summarizing to share ideas with your friends and family