

I was going off the first large scale successful implementation of electric streetcars, not the first streetcar.
Frank Sprague installed a complete system of electric streetcars in Richmond, Virginia, in 1888. This was the first large-scale and successful use of electricity to run a city’s entire system of streetcars.
https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-streetcars-cable-cars-4075558
For anyone wondering what the fuck that title meant: