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

Taalbi, Josef LU (2025) In The Conversation
Abstract
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.
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