EV-1, GM's eletric car.

[kev]

GM has pulled the plug on their attempt at a commercially viable eletric vehichle, at a time when gas prices are as high as they've ever been.
Whats more the thing was only availabe on lease, so all the people that drive them have to give them back.
Will someone ever get it right and hit the market with an eletric car that succeeds commercially, not just as a P.R exercise.
It seem to me they all have the same flaw, which severely limits their appeal.

[garcon]

Originally posted by kev
GM has pulled the plug on their attempt at a commercially viable eletric vehicle...

That is one of the worst unintended puns I've ever read

Originally posted by kev
...at a time when gas prices are as high as they've ever been.
Whats more the thing was only availabe on lease, so all the people that drive them have to give them back.
Will someone ever get it right and hit the market with an eletric car that succeeds commercially, not just as a P.R exercise.
It seem to me they all have the same flaw, which severely limits their appeal.

The same flaw being they don't use petrol...

Without significant government/international community incentives, I very much doubt a commercially successful electric car will be born.

There are one or two hybrids appearing that may be a pointer. The Honda Insight and particularly the Toyota Prius are an impressive, er, insight into what could be.