Reddit reviews The Car That Could: The Inside Story of GM's Revolutionary Electric Vehicle
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For GM it was a completely dollars and cents decision. As some have commented, it was related to the change in the ZEV mandate but, if they had been profitable or highly sought after, they would have kept them in production. In the end automakers are (or should be) fuel source agnostic. That said there was no vision for the future nor appetite for large investments for an uncertain ROI. That's why it is usually start-ups that change industries: Netflix, Amazon, and of course Tesla. High risk, high reward. Legacy companies want low risk, high reward.
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I sometimes think that we are better off that GM ended the EV1 program. Had they kept building an interesting but uninspiring, short range EV with a lead acid or NMH pack, would we have over 1M EVs in the US by now? It is a counterfactual that no one can answer.
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Recommending reading. I thoroughly enjoyed. The Car that Could
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