16: Electric cars
Automotive technology was evolving rapidly in the eighties, and the thought of an electric-powered car was quite intriguing. The problem was that battery technology was still in its infancy at this point and a full-fledged electric car would have been too costly to mass-produce. Another problem was that the potential electric cars were either downright ugly or impractical for most consumers.

The early adoptions of electric cars didn’t have very much range and most of these cars were concepts or very low production models. Nowadays the electric cars are everywhere with companies like Tesla bringing these models to the mainstream.