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Originally Posted by aerohead
I've heard of it,but not read it.I WILL keep an eye out for it.
Around 1997,one of the car mags did a road test of the EV1.Some 'issues' were mentioned about the car,including inverter fires.
It would be really beneficial to post any additional data as long as you think it would pass peer-review.
One of Ed Beagley ( sp?)Jr.'s things is,'keep to good science.'
GM had 'killed' the EV1 by Jan. 1993.It is said that the inside joke in the auto industry was," Everybody wants there neighbor to buy an electric car."
In 1989,Robert A. Lutz ( who is now with GM ) made the comment," We talk one game,but play another."
In 1992,GM's Oldsmobile would spend $100 million on advertizing.
Thanks for the tip! I'll go bang my head into a wall now.  |
The whole ad campaign was sabotaged by Lutz. He approved the apocalyptic commercial that was made in black and white and was eerily narrated by the dwarfish actress Linda Hunt.
GM EV1 TV Commercial 1 - YouTube
GM took billions of dollars from the DOE to build electric vehicles and when they found out that the maintenance-free EV could not sustain their dealers service profits, the plug was pulled.
GM could have continued to lease or sell these cars and would have made it, financially, over the bumpy road.