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  • UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldFuck Cars
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    20 days ago

    Saw a documentary on how gm killed the electric car they made in to 90s

    GM EV1 electric car was discontinued in the late 1990s after its production run (1996-1999), and GM controversially crushed almost all of them in the early 2000s, sparking the documentary “Who Killed the Electric Car?”. The company stated the decision was due to high production and maintenance costs and the belief that it was not a commercially viable product. The EV1’s demise is often linked to the end of California’s zero-emission vehicle mandate, after which GM and other automakers lobbied to soften the regulations.


  • He took all the credit for Tesla and sued the guys that started the company so that only his name was attached to it. I remember reading about the Lotus based Tesla before I knew about him.

    The original creators of the Tesla car were engineers Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, who founded Tesla Motors in 2003. While they were the company’s founders, Elon Musk became the company’s first major investor in 2004 and was later granted co-founder status after a lawsuit settlement, which also included other early executives like J.B. Straubel and Ian Wright.