No expansive EV or hybrid infrastructure existed in the 19th or early 20th century. Such electricity-based transportation charging infrastructures are still being built now.
The transportation infrastructure of the world has been running on oil since 1859 when the first oil well was drilled in Pennsylvania. The world has been running on oil ever since. Until a reliable and globally-reaching EV transportation and charging infrastructure replaces the current fossil fuel infrastructure, the EV revolution will continue expanding in the 21st century.