I don't think it would have been popular. Oil is very cheap $/potential energy and not range-limited in the same way EVs are. And even if you dumped trillions o

I don't think it would have been popular. Oil is very cheap $/potential energy and not range-limited in the same way EVs are. And even if you dumped trillions of $s in battery tech 100 years ago it's not clear it would be enough to really improve the situation.