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To my knowledge, they're not very common in the US because their low voltages in households means that kettles take ages to boil.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity_by_country

Relevant Technology Connections-video on the subject: https://youtu.be/_yMMTVVJI4c

iirc, the power thing made a slight difference but probably doesn't explain the issue entirely.

Yeah, I'm an American tea drinker, always have used an electric kettle. It still just takes a couple minutes or something, nothing major. I think it's just fewer tea drinkers, maybe.