alsoPhilDAS-
Lazy mostly, convenience is king.
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I won't go that far. A milk float is pretty useless if you try to use it as a personal transport vehicle, as were most electric vehicles until recently. Now the technology exists to make a half decent electric car, people are buying them. But until recent developments in batteries, motors, and electric drive controllers electric cars were basically shit, expensive and useless. I wouldn't consider anyone to be an asshole for not paying well over the odds for something which is fundamentally incapable of fulfilling its intended purpose.
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Most people thought they were gonna die from Nuclear Armageddon so I can kinda forgive them.
Lazy....assholes... not so much - why would you make what appears to be a crap choice, on the face of it? If the battery tech wasn't there to provide something like parity with ICE, it just wasn't there. Nobody would even sell you an electric car for most of post war time, even if you wanted one.
Radio Controlled Cars in the 80s/90s were wicked tho
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Energy density. Making slow electric vehicles with a very limited range is easy. Selling slow electric vehicles with a very limited range to potential customers, who could buy a much faster ICE car with effectively unlimited range instead, is hard.