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Originally Posted by Tweety
Well, in this case we cant really blame GM for stupidity... It's not stupidity if you don't want to understand, it's moronic or idiotic or whatever label apropriorate for it... If they wanted to make the EV1 they probably could have gotten their maths straight and figured out how to make it cheap... But someone up high in the organisation didn't want the EV1 to stay alive... And they didn't want it to be cheap... I still refuse to buy any GM product on general principle if there is alternative available...
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It could be that Roger Smith,the out-going Chairman of GM,was the only person who wanted it.
It could be that California's zero-emission mandate was the real issue,and how it might spread to other states,and how each state could potentially come up with their own rulebook for making cars.
With the legislation killed,there was nolonger a 'need' for the car.
I'm not a GM stakeholder,I have no idea what motivations were.
If I were a carmaker and had the chance to sell EPA CAFE 200-400-mpg cars which would allow me to also sell more guzzlers,that might be an interesting motivation by itself.