> Early electric cars performed better in cities than internal combustion vehicles This article talks a lot about cars around 1900. In the US in 1900, 60% of

> Early electric cars performed better in cities than internal combustion vehicles This article talks a lot about cars around 1900. In the US in 1900, 60% of the population lived in rural areas and only 40% lived in cities. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_in_the_United_States#Historical_statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_in_the_United_Sta...) So working well in rural areas was probably a more important concern. A product that works OK for all your potential customers is better (from a business's point of view) than one that works a bit better for some customers and not at all for others.