Last week I mentioned that Ford was introducing a new alternate fuel sports car that runs on E85 ethanol. This week, GM announced the new Chevy “Volt” Sunday at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. While some conspiracy theorists rally around an alternate film claiming GM was trying to kill electric vehicles because they were in cahoots with “Big Oil” called “Who killed the Electric Car” (which was shown at Chico’s Pageant Theatre right after Al Gore’s movie) GM has been quietly working on this new electric rollout. See details here.
That movie cited the EV1 concept vehicle built and test marketed in the 90’s and its demise as a conspiracy. But according to GM’s Bob Lutz “The EV1 ‘died’ because it had limited range, limited room for passengers or luggage, couldn’t climb a hill or run the air conditioning without depleting the battery and no device to get you home when your battery charge ran low.”
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