Where Did All the EVs Go?

How did we lose EV technology?  It depends on what you believe.

The common answer is that the electric starter, developed in the early 1920s to replace the hand crank, made internal combustion engines easy to start for women and weaker men.

Skeptics think it was the chicanery of the then-fledgling oil industry, the same group that would then go on to demolish the trolleys, and push everyone into gas-guzzling passenger cars.

How did we get it back?  Entrepreneurs, sensing environmental concerns, in possession of greatly improved technology in batteries, motors, and power generation.  Traditional automakers are now jumping on the bandwagon.