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GM produced hundreds of EV1s. Then only leased them. Many drivers fell in love with the EV1 because of it's fast clean quiet low maintenance ride. What is the real reason GM called back all the leased cars and stopped making the EV1? As one owner called it GM's Twilight Zone. First! Is it reasonable to believe that the auto industry has an interest in the oil industry? Second! When a vehicle is high maintenance you know that manufacturers make much more money on parts and labor. The auto wars begin. Just pure business capitalism. Money dictates what is produced and what the media tells us to buy. The government stepped in to take asbestos insulation and cigarette smoking out of our buildings. I remember when I was a kid it was all right to burn trash in your back yard. I predict in the future poisonous exhaust will be outlawed.
In 1990, California found itself in danger of losing highway funds if it couldn't find a way to meet air quality targets set by the Federal Clean Air Act. As the California Air Resources Board looked to prototype electric cars coming out of GM. The air resources board proposed a mandate that by 1998, 2% of cars sold in California would be zero-emission vehicles. By 2001 increased to 5%. And by 2003 10% of all new automobiles sold in California would be emission free. (It didn't happen.) In 1990 GM responded whole heartedly. The company committed millions of dollars and teams of designers and engineers, who emerged six years later with an attractive electric car named the EV1. It then recruited a sales team good at selling cars with the patience and passion to educate an interested but suspicious public. It ended up with an enthusiastic group of men and women who believe in the promise of EVs. GM titled them "EV specialists". Five years later, they would be considered "the Subversives." The EV specialists were bitterly disappointed that when they finally began to accomplish what the GM company had recruited them to do they found themselves fighting for the survival of the EV1 against GM. My guess is that they, the oil industry and auto manufacturers, the most powerful lobbyist in the nation, can dictate government actions and regulations. They determined that electric vehicles are contrary to their better interest of making money so will do what ever it takes to stop the public from becoming aware of the necessity of EVs for public health. http://www.electrifyingtimes.com/hurryupandwait.html

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