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I don't think I've ever seen data on this kind of thing, but I wonder if the number of horses employed for transportation was higher, even or lower than the number of vehicles we have per capita today. Like, we've had discussions on this forum about how a 'new car' is starting to get beyond the means of an average American. Of course, used cars exist and you can probably find one that will get you from A to B for only a few thousand dollars. But, how much would it have cost an 1926 family to have a horse and use it for transportation. If the Model T is the first real mass produced vehicle in 1908, then 18 years is a relatively short period. Of course, when it comes to EVs, they've actually be around since the 1900s. I think Doris Kearns Goodwin wrote about how President Taft used to like riding around in an old EV. But, maybe we should use the release of the Model S in 2012 as the modern era of EVs... we're only 14 years into that transition and we've still got a long way to go before the percentage of even new EV sales per year becomes substantial. What I wonder about is how much faster this transition is happening in countries like Norway and China... and if the great manufacturing power of China is behind it, how much sooner the world will be shifting to EVs than it took for the world to go from horse to bike to car.

I looked into it a few months ago. I can’t remember the exact number, but it seemed very similar. It must have really been a pain to find gas at the beginning. Mostly drug stores sold it.