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The story behind the EV1
Gudrun 2022-03-23 08:01:04
The story behind the EV1 is roughly as follows. Under pressure from the Federal Environmental Protection Agency, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) mandated that zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) sales should account for 10% of total vehicle sales by 2003. General Motors (GM) was forced to launch the EV1, a pure electric vehicle, in 1996, but it didn't get people's love. ZEV moved the oil companies' cheese, so the oil companies didn't hesitate to buy companies that supply batteries for electric vehicles and then destroy their businesses. Due to the high reliability of ZEVs, the profit of automakers' parts has been reduced. Automakers, oil companies, and the U.S. federal government, along with the weak CARB, united to kill the ZEV project. The EV1 was only offered to car owners on a long-term lease basis and did not go on sale. GM took back all EV1s and destroyed them. The Ni-MH battery used in the EV1 was the most reliable battery of that era. GM and Chevron got control of the Ni-MH battery and sued Toyota, Panasonic and all other battery manufacturers. Toyota lost the case, and the Ni-MH battery could only be used. For "hybrid", not for plug-in. So far, electric vehicles have been completely killed.
You can search for the article "The True Story of EV1" on Baidu. The article is written in both Chinese and English.
You can search for the article "The True Story of EV1" on Baidu. The article is written in both Chinese and English.
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Who Killed the Electric Car? quotes
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Narrator: A fuel cell car, powered by hydrogen made with electricity, uses three to four times more energy than a car powered by batteries.
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David Freeman: The oil industry and the automobile companies are resistant to change. The American people need to be reminded that it took a law to get seatbelts in the cars. It took a law to get airbags in the cars. It took a law to get the mileage up from 12 to 20 miles per gallon. It took a law to get catalytic converters to control the pollution. And i think clean cars are too important to be left to the automobile industry.