EVS23: GM barely two years after killing ev1-Tape 1

GM does not seem serious about changing its thrust from gas-guzzling to electric propulsion.

It seems just one more public relations ploy, designed to mitigate the onus of "who killed the electric car".

GM fought desperately to avoid building the EV1, tried to sabotage it by bad batteries, and spent millions fighting to kill the Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate and crush the Electric car.

GM's destruction of each and every EV1 militates against the idea of their being honest.

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[pnroyal]

You should try being less rude when you talk to people.

[liveoilfree]

Really? Most people would say that GM is the one being rude.

[Zeroto90]

Why is everyone blaming GM for screwing the "world"? maybe they screwed us americans, but you worldly folks need to start asking why in europe where gas has always been more expensive, why hasnt any european or asian countries developed a all electric vehicle? Stop blaming the u.s and u.s companies for scewing the whole world, tell all these companies that think their superior to build a ev, 15 years ago, get real or shut up

[liveoilfree]

By higher gas prices, Europe and Japan have avoided the problem that we have, which is slavery to oil-dictators. We don't have much commuter trains, and GM SUV are gas-guzzlers. 12 mpg is not world-class, sort of a joke.

[lorenzo8500]

You know what screw GM. They screwed Americans out of energy independece. Let them bastards go bankrupt.

[CAESARbonds]

The GM-guy is refusing to answer any questions and does not want to show details.

They don't want to sell the Volt. It seems to be a demo to pretend that GM is doing something.

They show the engine of every gas guzzler but refuse to show an electric motor? It is ridiculous!

Just look at the sales. How much longer is GM

continuing with its policy? Until the bitter end?

[planetvicecity]

@ Mr02camaro that kinda does not make sense.... hahahha before there was any cars or even coal-powered trains. the plants were still fine, we would not be here if nothing was fine. besides there is more C02 in the air for the plants to have anyway!

[Itsmeeman1]

GM SUCKS ARAB OIL COMPANY COCK!!!

[Mr02camaro]

@liveoilfree i love V8 power dont stop GM. i take all my catalytic converters off all my cars to do my part to save the plants. plants need C02 to live

[juxtn]

Maybe the GM-guy is not a member of the engineering team. So he really has no information to get out of him. If you approach him with suspicion and treat him as if he should know everything about the engineering and corporate future plans of this display model I think you almost give the guy too much credit. He may know nothing about the car other than the brochures he is passing out. He may be afraid if he flips the hood and allows you use your recording equipment that he will get fired.

[moss1transcendant]

your farmers used to be independant with growing there own fuel which ran alchohol fuelled vehicles but the government banned the use of the bio fuel that was produced properly at a rate on demand by the surrounding families. it was progressive and practical . the ban remained untill the petrol companies was established . oil is abiotic and not as your made to believe.

its a capitailistic trait.

if one person owns all the oil then they can charge what they want plus they have vested intersts

[Motorfordtoyota]

that hydrogen equinox my dad was able to drive at the atlanta internation auto show, but he never did, he drove the regullar equinox, the traverse and the camaro ss! Cool, GM rules man, Eco freaks need to go fuck themself on their toliet, I STILL LOVE GM NO MATTER WHAT!!!!!!!!!

[TimKGrimes]

"I'm sorry, who are you?"  - that question says it all about G.M.

[TimKGrimes]

Forget GM. Buy from another company. GM could not care less about U.S. citizens' desire to purchase an EV. Buy anywhere else.

Doom ON YOU, GM!

[3089280288]

Fisker uses the same drive train.

[craybmsn]

This is so the oil companies are only slightly shut out. The car will still need gas, oil changes and all the maintenance items addressed, so their think is a little bit of both worlds.

[LouieWasHere66]

I was A car sale's man for over 18 years before this economy closed our doors and I have never treated a person that way I tried to tell the customer everything I knew about the car,

rather the customer bought a car or not they always appreciated my honesty and helpfulness.

this guy is one of the one's that give car salesman a bad name.

but seems to me he's following orders from GM to detour people from the volt, looks like a EV1 remake to me.

[NismoPWNS]

the GM dude seems like an ass

[withoutxs]

They get paid to sell these cars so they should learn what they are selling lol

[Krede1977]

I had the exact same experience when I came across a Norwegian "Th!nk " electric car at a show.... the guy at the stand knew NOTHING about the car's internals other than it was an electric..!!

I think that when you are displaying something that is supposed to be "new technology", and "ground breaking"... .. you better do your homework and read up on what you are presenting...

But then again,,,, the guy might just have had a bad day and be fed up with answering "stupid questions" ;)

[rezn66]

Yeah it's the American dream to go "camping" in an RV or trailer, and have BIG things because everything here is BIG because fat asses need BIGGER things. And we all know America likes it's cake and it's "reality" TV...

[bman006bjj15843]

obviously it is all GM's fault. GM should put in a national infrastructure. And they should refuse to sell large cars so that people who oh, i dont know, need to tow a trailer, can just buy foreign cars instead right? A side note, I dont see any toyota full size hybrids out there.....

[bman006bjj15843]

conspiracys, one after another, they fail. largely because of lack of evidence, this guy is asking a SALES REP, not an engineer, a sales rep to define every inner working of a car that isnt even developed yet. completely ridiculous. Also, it we are certainly doomed, why dont you do something about it instead of just complain?

[ahset]

You know what? I would seriously endorse the Volt if not for one thing. It still burns gas! Goes 40 miles before a gas engine kicks in? Give me a break. I go almost 30 miles on my ebike with no pedaling with batteries from china. You're telling me this auto giant can't make anything better? The volt is going to be a dead cell. Of course the blame is going to be "blah blah, batteries, lack of demand, too expensive to produce..."

[compu85]

You sounded quite excited about their product, GM had been trying to drum up interest in the Volt, you'd think they'd have been more happy about someone asking lots of questions.

[rezn66]

I'm with liveoilfree, I've been to The Netherlands and Germany, you can pretty much go anywhere in a metro area via tram/train and possibly walking a few city blocks... Why doesn't America be more like Europe and build trams and trains? Cause this country founded the combustion engine and want us to give all our money to the oil companies....

[Zeroto90]

Yeah good point, and we feel that our country is some how different enough from europe and asia to the point that we need a different type of transportation, and in truth the public transportation systems over there would work here if they were put in place,