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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. Re:Makes sense... by the+uNF+cola · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But according to sex and health experts, pulling out never works. I wonder where this thread is going next...

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  2. Re:read GMs explanation - it's because of regulati by HarveyBirdman · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I don't personally understand it. Does anyone know why inductive charging shouldn't qualify for zero emissions?

    I don't know for sure, but probably some genius in the Cal State government thought "Hey, induction uses a magnetic field. That's an emission!"

    It's very probable. I live in California, and the voters here send the stupidest, sack of s*** mother-effers that you have ever seen in your life into office. I am talking about the lowest form of scumbag life you have ever seen. This current governor and legislature anally raped the largest budget surplus into the largest deficit in just two years. If you ever wanted to know the harm Democrats can cause when unfettered, come on out to California.

    In the North you have the final outpost of the Hippie movement, and in the South you have all the illegals looking for benefits. In the Center of it all is a vast pile of desperate, attention seeking lunatics who still think BDSM is a wild new thing and that anyone outside a few elderly folk in Iowa finds them shocking.

    And then the absolute zero loser hypocrites (the politicians admonish people for their gas guzzling habits while the politicians themselves drive state subsidized SUVs and luxury cars) in office appoint people to these air and resource management boards that literally drive a practicing agnostic like me to use the word "evil" when describing them. One guy, Democrat Steve Peace, was basically the sole architect of the whole electricity crisis.

    Peace's reward for causing one of the largest utility screwups of the century was to become one of Governor Gray Davis' power brokers and a lifestyle beyond the dreams of most here on /.

    And the ignorant voters just eat it all up, bend over, spread their ass cheeks, and ask for another, please, sir.

    Just a small part of the reason I tend to root for the asteroid.

    But, hey, the weather's nice. :-)

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