Gregory's Server@keithreeder @rodhilton https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_electric_vehicle#2000s:_Modern_highway-capable_electric_cars
"The Roadster was the first highway legal serial production all-electric car to use lithium-ion battery cells"
Took me 8 seconds to find this. It's not hard to criticize someone without criticizing their whole existence. You can't deny that even if he didn't invent the EV, he popularized it as a regular consumer car and showed how viable it is, making established brands invest in them without worry.
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@keithreeder @rodhilton So you're basically saying that Elon and Tesla had no effect on how fast EVs are being adopted? Not saying that at all: but I AM saying that you're wildly wrong to credit him with "definitely" being where it all started. |
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""The Roadster was the first highway legal serial production all-electric car to use lithium-ion battery cells" "
That's not REMOTELY the same as "...he definitely started the whole EV thing".
I was coveting the the first Zero electric motorcycles (EVs don't just come with four wheels) LONG before the Tesla Roadster was A Thing.
In the UK (not everywhere is the US) we had the Sinclair C5 in the 80s; and the G-wiz was commercially available from 2001.