| I think of The Showerhead of Doom when I read electric shower, BUT if it's an immersion heating element inside a tank that's directly connected to a shower (single piece) then it would count as an electric shower to me. It's basically a big kettle if you think about it, only used to take showers.
The most (in)famous are south american (there's more than Brazil) ones, they just install that because houses don't have a boiler room or a gas line, yeah there are electric boilers or water heaters (not the same) but you still need the physical space and all the plumbing, valves, etc. so what they do is build the house with a single line for cold water rather than two, and it's plastic not copper, not rated for hot water.
Same with gas, only fancy houses have gas plumbing installed, the rest have a propane tank with a flex hose for the cooker, you'd need another one to run a heater and it'd probably empty it in a matter of days.
My house has plumbing and a boiler but it's ancient, if you wanted to build something like this today it'd probably cost millions due to all the labour and materials, copper pipes were dirt cheap 140 years ago vs. today and you 100% needed them if you wanted your house to have a bathroom, plus you also needed pipes for lighting, as it was gas, candles and portable lanterns were a thing of course but gas is where it was at.
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