Select the best sentence to support the statement that the first electric cars had several drawbacks.

In the late 1800’s there was a race to invent the horseless carriage coal was too heavy to use for fuel so people tried other things including natural gas gunpowder and something we now think of as modern like batteries for a while batteries seemed to be the answer by 1897 nyc had a fleet of electric taxis and 1899 the world land-speed record of 68 miles per hour (109 kilometers per hour) was set in an electric car but the batteries were too heavy and cumbersome relative to the power they supplied and they burned out if you tried to go to fast

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"The batteries were too heavy and cumbersome relative to the power they supplied and they burned out if you tried to go too fast."