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EV-1 for Lease (1996)

53 points by 1970-01-01

by creativeSlumber

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Electric_Car%3F
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uep5zOrsAEA
Incredible documentary about the politics around EV's made before Tesla's became mainstream.
People were demanding and protesting asking GM to let time buy their EV'1 after the lease, but they destroyed all the cars. So did Toyota for the EV RAV4's.

by themafia

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by oldnetguy

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I'm surprised that no one has tried to clone this car. There are replicas of older cars such as older Porsches, Shelbys and others but I can see a small market for people who would want a replica EV-1

by xmcp123

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Wild to see this name again.
I went to school in the metro Detroit area, and I still remember when GM brought an EV1 prototype to my middle school.
They seemed so excited about it, I was shocked to hear it got shelved when it did.

by renewiltord

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It’s fascinating to me to watch how pre-BEVs-being-normal they were supposedly impossible to build because Big Auto was lobbying the government and buying the tech and shutting it down. I remember how Reddit would talk about this: GM doesn’t want any competition because they collude with oil companies and so on.
After BEVs became normal, the guys who made them common are supposedly just idiots who got lucky. Presumably history will write LLM inventors as lucky morons as well. And space rocket manufacturers and GLP-1 (and associated) drug makers.
Everything is impossible because of lizard men until one day someone does it and then they were just lucky.