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I think you'd have to be a bit ignorant of very recent history to think that America is some cesspool of lack of innovation in the electric car industry. They i
by philipallstar 7mo ago
I think you'd have to be a bit ignorant of very recent history to think that America is some cesspool of lack of innovation in the electric car industry. They invented it, despite there being no competition at the time.
- mikestew 7mo agoIn “recent history”, America invented EVs, and there was no competition? What kind of revisionist crap is that? Or am I just misreading your comment?
- nxm 7mo agoReference to perhaps GM EV1 in the 90s, and to Tesla which actually made electric cars desirable.
- airspresso 7mo agoAmerica certainly did not invent electric cars. Depending on which electric car you consider the first real one, the inventor was either French, British or German [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_electric_vehicle#First_full-scale_electric_cars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_electric_vehicl...
- conductr 7mo agoGP is talking about the current market and product class, not the drive train/mechanisms. There was ~a century where EVs were effectively nonexistent
- thephyber 7mo agoIf the GP was aware of the history of electric cars, they would have known how to word their comment to be factually accurate.
- conductr 7mo ago> "electric car industry. They invented it" "Industry" is a keyword that your pedantry is overlooking. Unless you can edify us as to where there was an EV industry prior to Tesla? The existence or history of the tech is irrelevant in that comment.
- breve 7mo agoThe first automobiles were electric and they weren't American: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_electric_vehicle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_electric_vehicl... The most important component in an EV is the battery. The lithium ion battery made electric cars practical. So you could say Sony invented the electric car industry by being the first to commercialize lithium ion batteries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_lithium-ion_battery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_lithium-ion_bat...
- philipallstar 7mo agoI suppose so. By that logic you could say that whoever invented the wheel invented the electric car industry. But I'd say it's definitely, overwhelmingly Tesla.