"I remember hearing back that these cars were leased out only. which makes sense why this car had little public support." The ignorance about the EV1 is the main reason "Who Killed the Electric Car?" hasn't been vilified as pure lying trash. The EV1 was leased for two reasons : 1) the car did not meet the new FederalHighway safety standards introduced after the car was designed but before it went to market, which led to negotiations in which the Feds allowed the car to be built and leased only in "experimental numbers" and the cars recovered by GM at the end of the leasing period and 2) the car cost GM $44,000 to build, and no fool would pay thatprice for what amounted to a grocery-getter and short commuter vehicle that went thru $5,000 worth of batteries a year. Only the diehard well-heeled environmentalists could put up with the inconveniences of a car like the EV1 and then lie about how wonderful the acar was. The EV1 should never have been put on the market. The car was a piece of crap.
Right. Such a terrible car that the owners were sueing GM to try to buy them. The cars they crushed were already built. GM would have invested nothing to sell them except lawyers cost to draft an "as is" bill of sale.
They had buyers with cash in hand. Whether the cars were good or bad is irrelevant to the discussion. They could have been sold. GM chose to remove them from the market. Personally I think it was to avoid making the other crap they were (are) selling look bad. storm
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"I remember hearing back that these cars were leased out only. which makes sense why this car had little public support."
The ignorance about the EV1 is the main reason "Who Killed the Electric Car?" hasn't been vilified as pure lying trash. The EV1 was leased for two reasons : 1) the car did not meet the new FederalHighway safety standards introduced after the car was designed but before it went to market, which led to negotiations in which the Feds allowed the car to be built and leased only in "experimental numbers" and the cars recovered by GM at the end of the leasing period and 2) the car cost GM $44,000 to build, and no fool would pay thatprice for what amounted to a grocery-getter and short commuter vehicle that went thru $5,000 worth of batteries a year. Only
the diehard well-heeled environmentalists could
put up with the inconveniences of a car like the EV1 and then lie about how wonderful the acar was. The EV1 should never have been put on the market. The car was a piece of crap.
Right. Such a terrible car that the owners were sueing GM to try to buy them. The cars they crushed were already built. GM would have invested nothing to sell them except lawyers cost to draft an "as is" bill of sale.
They had buyers with cash in hand. Whether the cars were good or bad is irrelevant to the discussion. They could have been sold. GM chose to remove them from the market. Personally I think it was to avoid making the other crap they were (are) selling look bad.
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