Subject: Re: OT: looking for a post on EV vs ICE
I wonder how it could have happened that Electric Cars came out before Gasoline Cars, yet people soon ditched EV card for Gas cars.

What were they thinking? How could people have been so stupid?

A battery 1910 could store a little over 200 amp-hours. A modern car battery will store between 50,000 and 100,000 amp-hours, usually expressed as 100 kWh.

So the choice was: limit your driving to 10 miles, or have a car the size of a diesel locomotive that was nothing but batteries, and still limit your driving to about 10 miles.

Gasoline, by contrast, stores the same amount of energy now that it did in 1910, plus or minus a little for adding lead, then deciding that wasn’t a good idea and taking it back out.

To paraphrase the bumper sticker: Technology happens.