Comment by SoftTalker
6 days ago
Yep. Too early is as bad as too late. The EV was invented but the supporting technology wasn't there.
Lots of ideas that failed in the first dotcom boom in the late 1990s are popular and successful today but weren't able to find a market at the time.
This reminds me of Mary Anderson [0], who invented the windshield wiper so early that her patent expired by the time Cadillac made them standard equipment.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Anderson_(inventor)