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America certainly did not invent electric cars. Depending on which electric car you consider the first real one, the inventor was either French, British or Germ
by airspresso 6mo ago
America certainly did not invent electric cars. Depending on which electric car you consider the first real one, the inventor was either French, British or German [1].
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_electric_vehicle#First_full-scale_electric_cars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_electric_vehicl...
- conductr 6mo agoGP is talking about the current market and product class, not the drive train/mechanisms. There was ~a century where EVs were effectively nonexistent
- thephyber 6mo agoIf the GP was aware of the history of electric cars, they would have known how to word their comment to be factually accurate.
- conductr 6mo ago> "electric car industry. They invented it" "Industry" is a keyword that your pedantry is overlooking. Unless you can edify us as to where there was an EV industry prior to Tesla? The existence or history of the tech is irrelevant in that comment.