Many years ago I watched a documentary about how mass transit train line projects to residential areas were scrapped due to the pressure from early automobile makers. I can’t remember exactly who the manufacturers were, but I think they were early front runners like Ford. I have no doubt that the same thing happened to early electric cars, they were just put out of business by the early gas powered car companies, or maybe even oil companies.

Better question - how the hell did this knowledge and history fall into unknowing? Why did we become so stupid?