• mommykink@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      We never were. Europe was making production, ICE cars decades before Henry Ford told the world that he invented the process

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          6 months ago

          Ford didn’t even claim that he invented the automobile. However, he did make the manufacturing process a lot faster, and therefore cheaper, so he was the first to sell them at a price that most people could afford.

          He was also a turbo-racist who Hitler saw as an inspiration, but that’s a different subject.