[JesseObrien]

>No, we wouldn't magically have developed modern computer-controlled battery packs of lithium ion batteries in 1920 if we just wanted it hard enough.

That's not what the commenter said. Don't put your interpretation of the words into theirs.

It is very feasible that the investment of 100-some-odd years of battery research and a marked non-future invested as deeply into oil and gas as we have now would have rendered our entire world vastly different. This is not a claim that the future would have happened sooner, but rather the events that unfolded and the research would have been different.

[Wytwwww]

But it's not something that happened at random. ICE was just an objectively superior option back then.