EV: design work ended in 1997

Car companies started designing EVs in 1994, in response to California's then-strong ARB's Zero Emission Vehicle mandate.

All the amazing over-100-mile and still running EVs were designed in 18 months ending in 1997.

The only work after that was GM fixing quality control problems on the 1997 EV1 and being forced to release the NiMH EV1 (in 2000, years after GM stonewalled the NiMH batteies in 1996).

So the car companies can do it. Toyota did continue improving their version of the NiMH batteries, until Chevron funded a lawsuit to stop them, extracting $30M and killing the NiMH battery production line.

In 1999, corrupt Democrat governor Gray Davis appointed Alan Lloyd to the ARB, an unlikely choice since Lloyd was ignorant of EVs, knew little of batteries, and had a record of futile fuel cell research.

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