Who killed the electric car ?

[SwordoftheVistula]

It's really not practical until the battery technology improves and is made cheaper, as it is now they cost at least 2-3 times a gas powered car of similar speed and comfort.

An interesting point though is the revenue that the government makes on petrol, if we all swapped to electric they would have to tax the electric to a similar level, and that would penalise everybody, even those who do not run a car.

They've solved that one already: my state and a couple others want to put transponders on every car, and charge a tax based on mileage driven. 'Of course' they wouldn't track and monitor where the vehicle goes they say...

[Lahtari]

Who killed the electric car?

THE STONECUTTERS!!

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[Revenant]

GM killed the EV1 at birth, it was only ever available on lease to start with.

GM should have kept developing it in the mean time but I doubt it would have been much different to the Volt by now. They did have a great alternative around 2000 with the Eco-Commodore that was a hybrid and certainly had potential. It might not have been any good for the North American market though.

The problem is many of these projects are ahead of their time and have no market, if they can't sell them then there's no incentive to produce them or keep developing them.