[JLS]

Yawn. Technologies don't die. If that car were to become the most viable technology today, it would quickly be adopted and mass produced. It hasn't been so it is not.

[Woodman]

The EV-1 was basically a research platform. Many different technologies were first put to real life use on it and GM learned a lot. The problem is GM Never seems to put what they learn to use.

[tcostell]

Well OK if you all insist, I'll come clean. It was me. I killed it. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and I called in ex-cia hit men to assassinate the designer, then we conspired with the elders of (you know who) to delete all records of it in the patent office, and used the Jewish banking consortium to pressure General motors to destroy their versions by promising them the oil we're stealing from Iraq.

Right now the very last copy of the plans is stored in my basement next to the car that runs on water and my perpetual motion machine. I sure hope that the folks from DU don't see this or I might have some trouble.

[50sDad]

Yep. The tech level wasn't up to producing a market ready product people could afford. My kids will drive them...when they can be made cheaply.

For gosh sakes, look at the hybrids! When I was younger, the concept required a frikking trailer full of batteries you had to haul behind the car, but when the tech level arrived that you could put it all in one sleek package, they are all over the place.

[gondramB]

>>Yawn. Technologies don't die. If that car were to become the most viable technology today, it would quickly be adopted and mass produced. It hasn't been so it is not.<<

If any "killed" the electric car it was the anti-nuclear people who prevented production of vast quantities of cheap electricity and energy independence.