When your thought processes are distorted by an ideology, you can't really "think things through".
At the same time, however, maybe they said that Kennedy and the Moon.
Maybe some advances will be accelerated by this.
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luddites will always fight against new technology.
electric cars are far from "new".
They are a lot newer than the gasoline internal combustion engine
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Timeline: History of the Electric Car . NOW on PBS
first electric car: 1835
1832-1839
Scottish inventor Robert Anderson invents the first crude electric carriage powered by non-rechargeable primary cells.
1835
American Thomas Davenport is credited with building the first practical electric vehicle -- a small locomotive.
1859
French physicist Gaston Planté invents the rechargeable lead-acid storage battery. In 1881, his countryman Camille Faure will improve the storage battery's ability to supply current and invent the basic lead-acid battery used in automobiles.
1891
William Morrison of Des Moines, Iowa builds the first successful electric automobile in the United States.
Thomas Edison and an electric car. Courtesy of the Smithsonian
1893
A handful of different makes and models of electric cars are exhibited in Chicago.
1897
The first electric taxis hit the streets of New York City early in the year. The Pope Manufacturing Company of Connecticut becomes the first large-scale American electric automobile manufacturer.
first gas engine:
History of the internal combustion engine - Wikipedia
you EVER do any research before popping off, trump style?