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Originally Posted by arsenal
Link from PM about 10 cars that hurt GM's reputation:
Whats 1st on the list? The EV1.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/auto...8.html?page=10
Basically it came down to not being viable under real world conditions.
GM probably could have handled it a little different (ie: not crushing them), but I think they did the right thing financially.
And the EV1 was 10 years ago. The environment has only been the latest buzz word for about 2 or 3 years now. |
First, you didn't read your own link. The EV1 was 10th. And they state that it was a wonderfully engineered car but the problem was range.... which was 40 miles in some cases. That is the "real world conditions" problem that everyone cites. However, the battery issue was being resolved with the EV2 when the project got squashed. Like I said earlier, if they had stuck with the technology they could have been ahead of the curve. They chose instead to stay in the dinosaur stage and let other car companies pass them right by, leaving the big 3 in the state they are in.