> [old technology vs. electric cars] Just a quick remark that electic cars aren't exactly new either. I have a bunch of engineering magazines from inherited my

> [old technology vs. electric cars] Just a quick remark that electic cars aren't exactly new either. I have a bunch of engineering magazines from inherited my grandfather, dated to the late 1930's, where a new electic car is written about in a way that show readers are expected to already know about this development. Edit: Wikipedia says even those magazines were 40 years late: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_electric_vehicle#First_practical_electric_cars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_electric_vehicl...