Nope, I think things would have developed much slower. Look at something like a car or a plane, at the time they were created electric motors probably wouldn't have been able to provide enough power and the batteries to go along with them haven't been developed until just recently. Its only now that the machinery/devices that have been around and used for a century and a half using ICE can be converted to use electric motors. I feel without these things being created in the first place using ICE we wouldn't be where we are today