"Hey Google" is better, but still low on the learning curve.

All these search engines and voice-activated/responding bots have their origins in "Lexis/Nexis" developed by Mead Corporation in Dayton, Ohio in 1966, and "Voder" developed by Homer Dudley at Bell Laboratories in the 1930s.

Tesla has its origins in 1827 when Hungarian priest Ányos Jedlik built the first electric motor; the next year he used it to power a small model car powered by a non-rechargeable battery.

The first mass-produced electric cars appeared in America in the early 1900s. In 1902, the Studebaker Automobile Company entered the automotive business with electric cars. In 1900, 28 percent of the cars on the road in the US were electric. EVs were so popular that even President Woodrow Wilson and his secret service agents toured Washington, D.C., in their Milburn Light Electrics. Electric trucks were an established niche into the 1920s. Then EVs disappeared.