Horseless carriages first rumbled along rutted roads is about to take place

horseless carriages first rumbled along rutted roads is about to take place The biggest automotive revolution since metres horseless carriages first rumbled along rutted roads is about to take place — and you'll have to strain to hear it.

That's because the first mainstream electric cars in nearly a century will be hitting the streets over the next couple of months, and their electric motors are as eerily quiet as they are tailpipe emission free.

Automakers such as Nissan and Chevrolet are touting the new vehicles in splashy ads, but already there are signs that wary mainstream consumers won't be quick to embrace the largely untested electric models. Automakers likely will have no trouble selling out their initial, limited production to electric enthusiasts metres and early adopters who have to have the latest thing, but mass acceptance that would lead to profitable production in big numbers remains a question.