[fpoling]

In 1920 in Berlin there were more electrical taxes than gasoline one. But cheap gasoline killed electrical car industry.

Without that electrical cars would proceed to develop and batteries with high capacity would happen much sooner.

As for pollution it would not be that bad. Fuel would be expensive and cars with combustion engines would not happen on massive scale. There would be much more freight by trains and nuclear energy would be developed on much bigger scale.

[tordrt]

You are talking as if oil and gas delayed the future, which I dont think makes sense at all.

I think we are underestimating all the derivatives we use from oil and gas here.

I think this is all very optimistic. I think not having oil and gas would have been a major setback to global progress I dont think it would have made us more advanced within batteries or electrical cars than we are today. And especially not even close to overall general global progress we have reached today.