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upwardbound on May 17, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Things Not Strings -- Google Launches Knowledge Gr...

"past failure ... the electric car industry is one example."

Actually, electric cars were popular before gas cars were.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_electric_vehicle...

wamatt on May 18, 2012 [–]

Interesting thanks!

But I think your argument falls down, when we inspect the merit of the world "popular".

Electric cars, have never been mainstream.

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