I'm going to guess, direct current is skipped in favor of alternating current. Electric cars aren't developed until much later. Pneumatic motors and steam cars come into wider use.
This is something you should research on your own. Very complex. Many things are inter-related. Like, no electric lights means no domestic power companies and much less infrastructure. How does all that influence refrigeration companies, urban trains/trams, and other stuff i can't think of right now? Is there a relationship between power companies and telephone and telegraph companies? What about electric cars? They had a brief golden age, until the electric starter erased their convenience advantage. As far as i know, direct current makes recharging batteries much easier. An intervening 20 year period of development (slow, but still) could almost totally bypass direct current generation. What else would electricity have been used for in this time? IMO, without light bulbs, domestic use won't take off, leaving electricity as an industrial thing. I like the image of an electric car recharging company with a network of recharging stations in major cities.