alt Hacker NewsI 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.
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The first automobiles were electric and they weren't American:
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_bat...
In “recent history”, America invented EVs, and there was no competition? What kind of revisionist crap is that? Or am I just misreading your comment?
America 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_vehicl...