When Electric Cars Were for Women
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The early EV era shows how quickly a technology’s social positioning can flip as infrastructure, performance, and norms change. For climate and mobility builders, it’s a reminder that product framing and cultural narrative are as path-dependent as the tech itself—design for re-segmentation, not a fixed “target user.”
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