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Subscribe to this threadDid CARB kill the electric car?
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Disgruntled Goat @ May 19th 2008 10:27PM
No, as sexy as blaming CARB may be, it was GM. This isn't a complicated story. CARB said some cars must get zero emissions. GM built the EV1 and sold it for a loss. Eventually CARB realized that no matter how hard they pushed, zero emissions just wasn't commercially viable yet. CARB changed the rules and GM killed the car because it wasn't needed any more. The end.
Could they have continued to sell EV1 and develop the platform into something that would eventually make a profit? You bet. Could they have made it a turbine driven hybrid per the article? Sure, but they chose not to because a) they had no vision of what was to come, and b) no one was forcing them to. Some 2009's are on the road today yet where is GM's hybrid car? It doesn't exist because before last year they didn't want it to exist.
There is no conspiracy here outside of the conspiracy of incompetence running through the core of GM management.