alt Hacker NewsAmerica 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...
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...
GP is talking about the current market and product class, not the drive train/mechanisms. There was ~a century where EVs were effectively nonexistent