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GM Pulls Plug on Electric Car

Posted by michael on from the plug-pulling-headline-irresistable dept.

davebo writes "General Motors' EV1, the all-electric dynamo of a car, has been pulled from the market. You can read the letter GM sent out to current EV1 drivers here. When the EV1 came out, the chairman of GM said it would "define the GM of the future". Guess he'd like to take that back now . . ." With Ford also cancelling their electric vehicle program, looks like hybrids are it for the next few years.

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  1. Makes sense... by Jason1729 · · Score: 4, Funny

    When the EV1 came out, the chairman of GM said it would "define the GM of the future"

    So what he's saying is the future of GM is to pull out of the market

    Jason
    ProfQuotes

  2. My electric car has no wheels by GeorgeTheNorge · · Score: 5, Funny

    It is called a PC. I drive to work everyday with it.

    If you and your boss trust you enough to let you stay home x/5 days a week, then you cut your commuting polluting by x * 20%.

    I also get to sleep with the woman in my home office - my wife.

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    1. Re:My electric car has no wheels by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      >>I also get to sleep with the woman in my home office - my wife

      Getting married for the free sex is like buying a Boeing 747 for the free peanuts.

    2. Re:My electric car has no wheels by QuackQuack · · Score: 2, Funny

      I also get to sleep with the woman in my home office - my wife. While you are working?

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  3. Of course it failed: by CoolGuySteve · · Score: 1, Funny

    You needed 80 jiggawatts of power to properly fuel the flux capacitator!

  4. Benefits by CoolGuySteve · · Score: 1, Funny

    So what kind of benefits does an evil henchman get? I hope they cover funeral expenses & danger pay, you guys seem awfully expendable.

  5. It's a shame... by Doomrat · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...I really wanted a car with a name so close to "Evil". I guess it's back to building my Evil-Mobile out of sugar crates and matchsticks. Fnaarr.

  6. Re:"Renewable" sources by kfg · · Score: 1, Funny

    I want my flying car. :)

    The EV1 is not something I would have been proud to come off my drawing board, excuse me, CAD station. It's not a *bad* design, per se, but it's certainly not great.

    The funny thing is, except for a few oddballs here and there GM really is at the forefront of electric car technologies.

    But this car wasn't designed to be at the forefront of anything. It was designed so they could go to Sacremento and say, " Alright, we built your damned electric car. Are you bloody hippies in suits *happy* now?"

    And it shows.

    To bring the whole thing full circle, the car I'm working on right now isn't an electric. It's got pedals. :)

    I'm tempted to make it look like a fire engine, but that would be silly.

    KFG

  7. Re:"Renewable" sources by machine+of+god · · Score: 2, Funny
    Some people just aren't genetically programmed to be fit, others don't do enough excercise.

    Those people used to get eaten.


    I'm not sure I have a point.