Quote from Chevrolet's website:
"AREN'T YOU THE GUYS WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR?
We are the guys that developed and launched EV1, the first modern-day electric vehicle, back in 1996. We are also the guys that devoted tremendous resources to design, engineer, and market this vehicle. Although the technical innovation and marketing efforts behind the EV1 were unparalleled, only 800 people were willing to lease the EV1. Yes, the EV1 quickly became the worldwide benchmark for electric vehicles, but its timing wasn't quite right. When GM launched the EV1, gas was cheap, there wasn't a war in Iraq, and there was less discussion about global warming. There were far fewer reasons for people to make the trade-offs in their transportation lifestyle to make the EV1 work for them. “We didn't kill the electric car; electric vehicle technology is far from dead.” The good news is that both the technology and the GM team who developed the EV1 live on. Chevy's next generation of low- and zero-emission vehicles - Tahoe and Malibu Hybrids,(1) Equinox Fuel Cell electric vehicles,(2) and our range-extended electric E-Flex system (found on the concept Volt) - all feature technologies and innovations from the EV1. We didn't kill the electric car; electric vehicle technology is far from dead. - Jill Banaszynski Manager of Electric Vehicle Programs General Motors Corp. "
So their excuse was "its timing wasn't quite right"?! Are you serious? Or rather it should say, "we lie in the same bed with OPEC, and we make more money the other way" Seriously? They're going to say, "it's because gas was cheap." It had nothing to do with the lack of marketing, leasing of the vehicles to people instead of selling the product, ripping it away from devout EV1 customers, or even the change of power in politics? No no... it was just bad timing. Oh and wait, it gets better: they're not going to re-release the already designed and working EV1 or any other electric model; no no, they're going to wait until 2010 before even considering releasing another electric car. Maybe the automobile companies don't understand:
WE ARE TIRED OF BEING JERKED AROUND!
WE ARE SICK AND TIRED OF RIDING THE BLACK SEA UP AND DOWN THE WAVES OF OIL. Not only is it an issue with cost; there's an issue with the environment. Even if there's an alternative to oil, we need to be responsible adults and take charge of the situation in how we affect the world around us. It's the same reason you don't start a county dump in your front yard if you live around other people. It's that kind of common respect you should want to give your fellow man. I mean, I totally understand if oil was the only way a car could get from point A to B, but seriously, we've had alternate fuels since before the 1940's. Furthermore: they need to STOP MAKING IT LOOK LIKE THEY CARE. We know they don't. It's just like EXXON Mobile saying that they care about alternative fuel sources....
YOU'RE AN OIL COMPANY! NO... NO YOU DON'T.
Unless of course it's to patten it before someone else releases it on the market. They're getting government subsidies to sit on their hands and fondle their wallets. Someone just needs to keep it real. That's all I saying.
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