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Wrong. Batteries did not develop, so the electric cars of the early 20th century were quickly bypassed by the internal combustion engine. Lead-acid batteries had no range. The same thing happened to steam cars, which were popular but were left in the cold due to their long warm-up times. Just when Stanley Steamer steam car developers got the warm-up time down to a couple of minutes, the steam car fell out of favor and stopped being produced. This, in spite of the fact that a Stanley Steamer held the land speed record for many years thereafter.

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Close to the same time as WW1 that just so happened to stop a railway from Berlin to Baghdad.

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Can't have that orient express completing the track that would create significant competition for BP

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Went to a car museum and saw some approx 100 year old cars that were fully electric, one had a gearless gearbox that could do whatever speed you wanted. Pretty impressive stuff and it is surprising that nothing was developed forward.

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Batteries are stupid. They were, they are, they will be.

Without tesla-style electrical, there is no further point.

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"Nope, you're wrong, batteries 120 years ago were tens of times more dense and compact than our latest batteries. It's all the lost technology "they" destroyed because they wanted to push oil. Honest."

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You're going to have to provide some sort of evidence for that.

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Sorry the quotes meant mocking the ultra-paranoid person. There is no proof.

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No, it’s the market place.

If people believed electric cars were superior, development and manufacture would have continued.

Only with the eclipse of petroleum and the (((perception))) that CO2 causes climate change has the market place for electric vehicles advanced.

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In what universe are electric cars more economical personal transport than ICE cars? Electric didn't take off because it was woefully inefficient, too expensive and too centralised. Same problems exist today.