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By Rob Lenihan Stellantis is looking to flex its battery-powered muscles in the electric vehicle sector. On July 4, 1894, the inventor Elwood Haynes climbed aboard his horseless carriage and drove the first gasoline-powered automobile down Pumpkin Vine Pike in Kokomo, Ind. Kokomo was a hotbed of innovation, particularly in the automobile industry, and the midwestern metropolis has been officially dubbed the “City of Firsts.” Way Down in KokomoIn the very same year that Haynes made his ride, D.C. Spraker created the first pneumatic rubber tire in the U.S. at the Kokomo Rubber Tire Company. The …
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