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Author: bulmabriefs144

Sep 23rd 2012 at 6:24:22 AM

* Pre-electric devices (oil lamps, crank engines, etc.) They generally were phased out because electricity worked cleaner with less a chance of fire problems. Also, they could use any source of energy because their power came from power plants. There are two instances where you'd use one of these items however, if you were remote from civilization (camping or outright living off the grid), or if you were in a secure facility that needed to be able to work without power (such as a suspension bridge, or ironically, a power plant) in case of a brown-out, terrorism, etc.
* Electric cars were actually around in the early periods of the auto industry. Either due to outright popularity or the fact they couldn't drive as far without refueling, gas-powered cars outcompeted them. Today, with improvements on function, and given we now have conflicts with the Middle East over oil, electric cars have been advertised again.

Bisected, the description is fine as is. Also, it doesn't always work like that. Sometimes they shift back entirely, but market the new one as advanced. Sometimes, they use it, but only under specific examples (like mine). And then sometimes, yes it works with a piece of the old.