(27-01-2023, 02:01 PM)nzoomed Wrote: Didnt know about the General Motors EV1 until now.
Looks like politics got in the way and the cars were all destroyed. Imagine where EV technology would be today if they had let EV's become the norm, this is going way back into the 90s!
There is a doco called "Who Killed the Electric Car" about the development of the EV1. It had a waiting list of over 4000 when the scrapped it. It was only done via lease so the person driving it could not buy it outright and had to return it at the end of the lease term. In the end all the EV1s barring a couple in museums were scrapped. The factory where the EV1 was built was retooled to build - Hummers.
Sorry i see someone already posted it. GM's greatest folly. Had they continued they would have cornered the market on EVs and probably had a car that would do 1000km on a charge by now plus solved the towing issue with EVs.