While EVs were said to be abundant before the days of the Ford Model T, it was the plentiful availability of oil that ultimately led to the loss of interest in their further development.
It may not have necessarily been any greener to keep going electric at that stage, especially considering the high level of toxicity associated with batteries, but it definitely would have been a lot quieter… Besides, if the world consensus would have been for the planet to go green, then they could have done so with the diesel engine, originally designed to run on peanut oil, however, the petroleum-derived fuel we now call diesel was chosen.
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