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Electric cars were once marketed as ‘women’s cars’. Did this hold back their development over the next century?

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par Josef Taalbi, Associate Professor, Economic History, Lund University

It was not a given that petrol-powered cars would come to dominate the world. In fact, back in 1900, just 22% of cars produced in the US were powered by gasoline (also known as petrol, benzine or various other names). The rest split between electric and steam cars.

There is no consensus on what explains the success of the petrol car and the historical demise of the electric. Some zoom in on the technical inferiority of electric cars, even though they had an average range of about…

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