Subject: Re: OT: looking for a post on EV vs ICE
The OG electric cars around 1900 relied on lead-acid batteries. These batteries have a number of problems in this application and really are no well-suited for many full charge-discharge cycles.

On top of that, they are extremely heavy. And TPTW decided to tax cars by weight at the time.

Modern batteries are a different story.

"Maybe they had what they thought were good reasons and we just are not aware of their reasoning." is ... questionable, given that there are more than 100 years of technological progress here.