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Electric cars were more popular than gasoline cars in the early 1900s.

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In the early 20th century, electric cars were clean, quiet, and easy to drive compared with hand-cranked gasoline cars. Gasoline vehicles later overtook them due to cheaper fuel, longer range, faster refueling, and mass production that lowered costs.

🤯 "Electric cars were more popular than gasoline cars in the early 1900s — long before Nikola Tesla’s name ended up on a hood"

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