"Because they did not use electric motors."

Wooooo let's go back to 1827 for a moment and have a chat with Anyos Jedlik. Or maybe Andres Flocken in 1881. Let's see how they did electric vehicles.

Oh, lookie there, no SiC.

A yes, and because the electric vehicles in 1881 were so convincing, we are all driving EVs today....wait