[airspresso]

America certainly did not invent electric cars. Depending on which electric car you consider the first real one, the inventor was either French, British or German [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_electric_vehicl...

[conductr]

GP is talking about the current market and product class, not the drive train/mechanisms. There was ~a century where EVs were effectively nonexistent

[thephyber]

If the GP was aware of the history of electric cars, they would have known how to word their comment to be factually accurate.

[conductr]

> "electric car industry. They invented it"

"Industry" is a keyword that your pedantry is overlooking. Unless you can edify us as to where there was an EV industry prior to Tesla? The existence or history of the tech is irrelevant in that comment.