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Everyone should watch the documentary: who killed the electric car People loved the EV1. It had its limitation due to the battery tech at the time. If they had
by samfisher83 10y ago
Everyone should watch the documentary:
who killed the electric car
People loved the EV1. It had its limitation due to the battery tech at the time. If they had kept up the program up we would probably have a $35000/200Mile electric car by now.
- maxerickson 10y agoCould that GM afford to keep the program running? It went out of business 8 years ago. I also wonder how much impact selling money losing electric vehicles would really have had on battery research (vastly better batteries are the big difference between 2002 and now...).
- jtrip 10y agoThe documentary mentioned above implies that the car was killed, not because it was uneconomical, because the law that insentivised them to make the car wasn't worked out properly and the car companies found killing the law insidiously, and the car, a better option than complying with it. The company truly was enthusiastic about the electric car, but then the law played unfavourable and they had to kill it.
- maxerickson 10y agoYeah, but it was massively uneconomical. They were leasing it for less than $500 a month and producing it at a cost higher than $50,000. Of course people thought that was great.
- WorldMaker 10y agoA great follow up documentary is Revenge of the Electric Car from the same documentarian. He was invited to witness the launches of the Chevy Volt, Nissan Leaf, and Tesla Model S.
- imh 10y agoMy grandpa had one of those, and I thought it was the so cool. For a general commuter car, it worked perfectly for him.