No EV's have not been around in terms of any real attempts at mass production.
Just because a technology exists in very rudimentary form on a shelf somewhere does not mean it is around.
And key to that was all the MASSIVE welfare ICE vehicle manufacturers and Oil and Gas companies were getting. It was pure communism where the gov't was picking winners and losers and providing all sorts of tax payer money to ICE manufacturers and Oil and Gas Co's, which then would make it impossible for EV's to compete.
You just support gov't corporate welfare and them picking the winners and losers and thus why you do not complain about that hundred+ year history of welfare and why you will continue to deny it was happening.
Birdman cannot learn and he will not be honest.