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Old 10-05-2008, 03:15 PM   #20 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Big Dave View Post
Why did GM drop the electric car? Same reason everybody else did: batteries.
That doesn't exactly hold up, since the people that had those EVs seemed to be quite happy with the batteries they had. Sure, there are a lot of people who couldn't have used the EVs with the sort of range they had, but isn't that a big part of Detroit's problem, thinking that every vehicle has to work for everyone, so they wind up building cars that only suit the almost-mythical average driver?
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