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FUCK YOU!TWENTY TWO YEARS AGO you made the FIRST electric car to be produced by a major auto company and you BLEW IT!
-California passed a law that all the big auto companies would have to sell just 2% electric by 1998 if they wanted to sell in California. (Yay for California!)
-GM complied, by making the EV1 in 1996, but HEDGED their bets by working to overthrow the government and the law.
-They succeeded. They took back all the EV1s they had leased, CRUSHED EVERY ONE OF THEM, tore up the plans and research, and went back to manufacturing gas guzzlers.
All I can say is FUCK YOU! You HAD your chance twenty two years ago. If you'd kept working on the EV1 since 1996, you'd DOMINATE THE ENTIRE AUTOMOTIVE WORLD by now. You'd have CORNERED the market on electric cars, and been light years ahead of everybody else! Elon Musk would just be a sad little man in a psycho ward in Sacramento, instead of a monolithic monster you have to compete with.
berni_mccoy
(23,018 posts)But the rest of what you say I agree with. GM blew it on EV for sure.
TrollBuster9090
(5,955 posts)berni_mccoy
(23,018 posts)I can't imagine what would have been the result today.
Too bad GM has discontinued the Volt, but it if is for longer range full-EVs, I hope that they do go this route. Wonder what they will do with their Pickup Truck line...
TrollBuster9090
(5,955 posts)...90% of one passenger commuter cars could and should go electric. I'm in the market for one right now. All of those city electric cars could be plugged in when they're not being used, and people could actually make money off of them that way. They can set a timer so that the car is being charged when electricity is cheapest; but also allow electricity to be drawn out of the battery, and put into the electrical grid, when it's most expensive. Van Jones proposed that in his book 'Green Collar Revolution,' but I'm sure it wasn't his idea. It's been around for a long time.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,032 posts)And after ripping up the tracks, offer bus systems that don't really solve public transit needs.
TrollBuster9090
(5,955 posts)...in the 50s, and moved to buses. And they're all now having to move back to rail transit. Something they HAD and deliberately destroyed thanks to lobbying by corporations.
ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)People loved em and still do. I saw one here in norcal, yesterday.
I live in Teslaville. Seems everyone has one around here.
TrollBuster9090
(5,955 posts)...by now, and wouldn't have to lay off so many of their workers if they'd showed just an ounce of vision. I'm in the market for an electric car right now, too. It'll either be a Smart electric (German/French co-creation), or a car from a new local company that I've got my eye on. But GM really missed the boat.