“…Thus in reality, neither steam, nor EV went away, but became marginalized technologies in the new automotive regime, much like we still ride horses and still use sailing boats. However, with what the transition scholars all la ds ape changes (Geels, 2002(Geels, , 2005Dijk, 2014;Truffer et al 2017), such marginal technologies, now confined to niches, can become more viable again and that is what appears to be happening to the EV, and to a lesser extent fuel cells (Peters and Coles, 2010).…”