WHY didn't electric vehicles work in the first place?

[Libby von H]

Everybody thinks EV's are a modern invention from the last 50 years or so. NOT TRUE.

In 1888, the German Andreas Flocken designed the Flocken Elektrowagen, regarded by some as the first "real" electric car.
In 1890, Andrew Morrison introduced the first electric car to the United States.

What killed the electric car?

Oil tycoons' greed mongering?
Oil tycoons' paying off politicians for their own greed?
The new up and coming age of assembly line vehicles running on gas?
Said gas vehicle companies paying off politicians for their own greed and avarice?

I mean, people STILL use oil, coal, and gasoline for tons of other things.
And assembly lines can easily be switched to put electric engines in any vehicle with very little cost.
Sales of said vehicles wouldn't be any kind of deterrent to the companies switching to EV's.

So WHY did it never take off? Become popular, or promoted by governments and companies that would profit off said EV's?????


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One of the first electric cars sold in the USA........
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Most sane people reason that the following is proof they must not be good

Biden subsidized prodcution
Biden subsidized purchase
Biden tried to mandate purschase
Biden tried to force competitors out of business


So most people rightly reasoned that EV's must be sht,.