>Car electrification was definitely not obvious

The first electric car predates the 20th century. That seems pretty obvious.

The problem was always batteries and charging infrastructure. I wouldn't call these semi-impossible, but it's something Tesla definitely contributed significantly to.

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philipallstar 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> The first electric car predates the 20th century. That seems pretty obvious.

If you count remote control cars as well then you have an even weightier point.

But if you're serious about adapting technologies, countries and drivers to electric cars then you'll know that an electric car being made in the 19th century is totally irrelevent. Toyota even bet big on hydrogen rather than electric for a long time; that's how non-obvious it was.

	▲	jfyi 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		>an electric car being made in the 19th century is totally irrelevent. But then you strangely ignored why it was irrelevant, which I already pointed out and was the meat of the statement. The concept of an electric car is painfully simple. Way more so than an internal combustion engine, in fact.

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xethos 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> The first electric car predates the 20th century

Great, now do steam. Being produced in the past does not mean it will make a comeback, despite steam being quieter, with great torque, and the main ingredient for propulsion (water) being safer than gasoline for normal people to refuel