If the US news story claims they are the first in the world to invent the electric car, then well technically they are correct !! All you simply need to do is re-define what the world is ... in the US they are the world !!, the rest of us are aliens.
I agree to some degree with Amaroo that they've [US] done just about everything else better, bigger and earlier than just about everyone ...
Better weapons, bigger wars and pollution and earlier every year ...
But hey I'm not biased
No harm in poking a bit of fun at the US, they've been poking fun at us for decades and vice versa .... but we all just good mates