The thought came up while reading this ancient blog post about the development of the GM EV1, the pioneering electric car that GM leased but never sold. The post is a response to the rather bitter
Who Killed The Electric Car? documentary, but draws most of its information from the earlier history
The Car That Could, published in 1996. It explains how GM would have lost money on every EV1 it sold, if it sold them for what people were happy to pay:
In 2011 a video entitled
Who Killed the Electric Car? was published. It is a very effective bit of propaganda but quite misleading. The key issue left out was the cost of producing the EV1 electric car. About 1100 EV1 s were produced by General Motors (GM) and leased to selected drivers at a monthly cost of $250 to $500. The drivers thought that this was somewhere near what would be required to cover the cost of producing them. It wasn’t. When the development cost was averaged among those cars their cost was about $340,000 each. Tha
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1st Gear: BMW Has A Flurry Of Announcements This Morning
Which we will have more about in a bit but for now I will cover the topline one, which is that BMW says that it expects that half of its new car sales will be fully electric by 2030. The company has been getting serious about electric for a bit now. Also, say goodbye to internal combustion engine Minis.
The automaker plans for about half of total sales to be fully electric by the end of the decade, it said on Wednesday. The company also confirmed that its Mini brand will only sell battery-powered cars by the early 2030s.
the electric car is here. that from 96 when gm releases the ev-1. not that long ago. only later to repossess and destroy owl of them? gm s move inspired the movie who killed the electric car? and now 15 years later the minds behind that movie are back with the sequel if you will, revenge of the electric car. you need to predict the future, prepare for it. if it happens, we ll be ready. i want to show the world that it s really possible. this is the future and it s attainable.