In 90's, California legislature passed "Zero Emissions Act" forcing auto makers to produce zero emission vehicles. Two choices; comply with law or fight it. In the end, they did both. New electric vehicles hit the market and were wildly popular. The auto industry wouldn't have it. In the end they crushed all vehicles despite huge demand of lessees.
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28 October, 2007
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There wasn't a "huge demand" for those ridiculously inconvenient and pointless electric cars in California. The number of vehicles
produced to meet that supposed "huge demand" number in the hunndreds, not hundreds of thousands. And very few of the 17 global automakers doing business in California made any effort to build electric cars (exactly thre - GM, Honda and Toyota),and all three experienced similar results - little demand, despite heavy subsidies from the Feds and California. Those cars met the needs of practically no one and cost a small fortune to replace the battery pack ($20K plus). The film is a transparent pack of lies
that cannot be classified as a documentary. I is hilariously inane, however, in its silly and totally implausible theories. It misses the main point - Time auto analysts recently nominated the EV-1 as one of the 50 alltime worst cars ever built. The film tells many lies, the biggest that the EV-1 was some wonder car.
I was wondering why the CEO of GM stated the biggest mistake he made was getting rid of the EV1.Lionev produce a battery that goes over 400 miles on a charge.Tesla motors have the roadstar that goes upto 240 miles on a charge.The Zap-x car is been develpoed with a 300 mile range and a charge of 10 minutes. The Renault-Nissan Alliance hopes to commence commercial sales of lithium-ion battery-powered electric cars by 2012.In the film Mel Gibson and Tom Hanks gave positive reviews on the car.The problem was you could not buy the cars you could only lease them. I would recommend a viewing of the film.
GM CEO Rick Wagoner his worst decision was "Axing the EV1 electric-car program and not putting the right resources into hybrids." (Motor Trend, June 2006)
Lion EV vehicles have a arange of 100 to 400+ miles per charge depending on the options you choose.
Anonymous obviously is one of the car or oil company muck raker. His firs lie is about the demand. How many care were left at the dealers available – none – How many Vetts can you currently find left over from 2007 – More than the total number of EV1 produced. The second lie, anonymous makes, none of the auto makers made any effort to build EV’s – Toyota Rav4 EV - Ford Ranger EV. The third lie, battery pack replacement, the Toyota Rav4 EV’s using the NiMh packs are still running on the original packs. The cost might be 20K because the oil company that bought the rights won’t sell them but the cost of the NiMh pack mass produced is closer to $350/KWhr. Only a hard core Oil sponsored group would rate the EV-1 as a 50 worst. That group is full of other GM’s but the EV1 would be in the top 10 in any un-biased group.
Watched "Who Killed the Electric Car" recently (great documentary), then i heard that GM and Tesla are making another run at the electric car (yay for progress!) hopefully development of this technology can go on unhindered by the corporations that depend on oil consumption.
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