They were displaced by more popular and useful ICE vehicles.
To the EV evangelicals I say, "Free Beer Tomorrow."
EVs are the cars of the future.....and always will be!
I am quite familiar with history. I considered building some “Edison batteries” just cause I could.
doble made some cool steam cars too. I wonder if you could do a hybrid sometimes
And there are many of them.
Ev’s never took off years ago because much or most of the rural population had no electrical power.
It was easier and cheaper to transport gas.
See The Power of the land vieo below - a farm in Warnock Ohio getting electrical power for the first time in 1939.
Warnock Ohio is 15 miles away from Wheeling W.va..one of the richest and most developed and highest manfacturing base cities in the country per capita in 1900 so it is not as if it is out in the middle of nowhere.
My grandpaps farm in hollars of W.va did not get electricity until early 40’s and that was due to a civilian works project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZchKXFpaDg