GM has never told the truth about demand for the EV1. I waited for almost 2 years on an "unofficial" waiting list to get one. I finally got one on a lease return with 2 years left on lease. The car was a NiMH Generation 2 model and I used it to commute 75-80 miles a day over a 1600' mountain pass with no problems. I just plugged it in every night and the range indicator in the morning was usually about 120 miles (a little less in the winter). It was great never having to stop at a gas station and the total I spent on maintenace was about $5 for a few gallons of windshield washer fluid. The EV1 was very comfortable, easy to drive, handled pretty well and accellerated like a sports car. All in all we loved the car and were very sad to loose the car at the end of the lease. GM also had the gaul to charge us $135 for a small paint scrape on the front airdam as excess wear at lease end and then went and crushed the car. The range of the car covered 90% of our needs and if GM had built a power trailer for it like the AC Propulsion trailer for the T-Zero, it could have served 100%. With gas prices in the Bay Area at about $2.30, the $1-$2/day extra on our electric bill when we had the car looks really good now.
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GM has never told the truth about demand for the EV1. I waited for almost 2 years on an "unofficial" waiting list to get one. I finally got one on a lease return with 2 years left on lease. The car was a NiMH Generation 2 model and I used it to commute 75-80 miles a day over a 1600' mountain pass with no problems. I just plugged it in every night and the range indicator in the morning was usually about 120 miles (a little less in the winter). It was great never having to stop at a gas station and the total I spent on maintenace was about $5 for a few gallons of windshield washer fluid. The EV1 was very comfortable, easy to drive, handled pretty well and accellerated like a sports car. All in all we loved the car and were very sad to loose the car at the end of the lease. GM also had the gaul to charge us $135 for a small paint scrape on the front airdam as excess wear at lease end and then went and crushed the car.
The range of the car covered 90% of our needs and if GM had built a power trailer for it like the AC Propulsion trailer for the T-Zero, it could have served 100%. With gas prices in the Bay Area at about $2.30, the $1-$2/day extra on our electric bill when we had the car looks really good now.
Looks like Rush Limbamaki will have a huge aduience among Finish cabbies, unless they have to pay for talk and sports as well as music.
This is one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of artifacts and information about computer history in the world. They are located at Moffat Field in Mountain View, CA. They welcome volunteers. Check out http://www.computerhistory.org/