Why did the USA not force GM,Ford & others to bring back the ELECTRIC CAR? PART 3 OF 6

It makes no sense that this electric car that goes on an average top speed of 80 and 100 miles a charge....why the companies never let anyone own them only lease. Then forced all of them to give them back. THEN THEY SHREDDED ALL OF THEM AT THE SCRAP YARD!. They also own the rights to new battery tech that can improve energy storage but they are hiding it cause of the fact they are owned by big oil companies. Google it and look it up yourselves and Fight for your future through education!

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Education

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• electric
• cars
• ev
• gm
• ford
• 100
• mpg
• fuel

[megatrends]

Electric cars suck, let me know when they don't and I'll consider it.

[taledarkside]

@ahubbard117

oh look at all the electric cars on the road. oh no the conspiracy theorist looks like a retard.

[Sohave]

@nosirrahx Yes for prototypes. the question is: was this just a prototype. in which case why were there produced so manny hundreds of them, if this was the practice with every new car type launched it would be no wonder that the US automobile industry was in a crisis.

[Sohave]

@foxraceing27 Nope Nicle-Metal battery packs such as the one in the EV1 and the raw ev has a longer life spand than that. I dont know where you got that information from.Regarding the replacement price that depends what type battery pack you are using as a replacement.

[nosirrahx]

They shred all test cars, power train is irrelevant. This is typical politics where you tell the truth in just the right way so that a lie is learned.

[foxraceing27]

the only reson why they did it 2 save us becouse they only last for 10 years then you got 2 replace it with a new one that will cost 10,000 dollers it be better 2 by a gas car or some other kind of gas

[REBELsst]

@ahubbard117 the battery tech has NOT been "there" as u said. only in the last 5 years has it worked well enough for practical automotive applications. the EV1 took WAY too long to charge and the batteries only lasted a few years (about the term of the lease). in 1996 when the EV1 was released the batteries and car was an experiment as i said.

[REBELsst]

@ahubbard117 Im in IT as well and those ppl that get a new battery could get a new laptop that outperforms their 4 y/o model for under $400. there was an article in Autoweek about these cars and why they were leased. had nothing to do with the government or big oil. it had to do with it being a test market to see if the technology worked. GM stated they were released as a "real-world engineering evaluation" they were offered "through limited lease-only agreements" that these ppl signed.

[ahubbard117]

@REBELsst - They were not used up. Period. The government and GM and oil companies wished to keep a valuable piece of technology off the road because they would have been screwed. And no, as an IT person, most people just buy a new battery. The battery technology is and has always been there. People just wish not to acknowledge it. You need to do some more reading.

[REBELsst]

@ahubbard117 they were taken off the road for the simple reason that they were used up! take ur laptop, when the battery dies and wont hold a charge u need a new battery, but at roughly 1/3 the cost most people get a new laptop. that was the same mentality with the EV1 as well as the first Preis and honda from the 90's.