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Originally Posted by texanidiot25
/Blame GM
Ford, Nissan, and I think even Toyota all had various EV concepts and test cars in the 90s. Hell, none of them ever got as far as GM either, at least not to the public. A lot of balls were dropped by all manufacturers.
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Yup. Once the genie of having a motor that lasts 500,000+ miles with no maintenance is out of the bottle, there's no putting it back...
Toyota did end up selling a few hundred RAV4 EVs, BTW, but they refused to mass produce them. There are a few with more than 150,000 miles on the original battery pack, still going. A shame that we can't buy that battery... a set in Dave Clouds EV accounting for the same weight as the lead acids currently in there would get him a range of over 500 miles in similar driving conditions...