The first car was produced circa 1890, the mass market Model T 18 years later, and the transition would take another couple decades. 

What's very interesting indeed is that global electric car sales actually almost exactly parallel Model T sales set precisely a century ago - from 60-70k in 19/2012 to just over half a million in 19/2016. 

Much as the Model T represented the maturation of the automobile into a commercial product, we're seeing the electric drivetrain mature into  a commercial product today.