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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.
The very first cars were electric, but since batteries were shit back then, steam and ice engines took over.
They were still selling into the 30s, marketed primarily towards women ("less maintenance, no gasoline needed", etc). The Depression really killed off the environment that allowed many people to own multiple cars, and those little electric city cars were the first to go because you needed something that was big and could actually carry your kids and your dog and your belongings and whatever else.
F***, I'm pretty tired. For a moment I thought you meant actual Frozen water.
Batteries being shit is the reason electric cars haven't been a thing.
Even now lipo batteries at best are 40x less energy dense than gasoline.
People really don't understand how critical energy density is. It's the reason hydrogen is a pipe dream, a 60 gallon tank of hydrogen is equivalent to a 5 gallon gasoline tank.
On the subject, just a few weeks ago an EV1 got into legal private ownership for the first time ever and the restoration process has started!
Just imagine what our battery capacities would be by now if we had gone forward with those
Same with solar when Carter and Obama pushed it vs China leaping forward in solar and EV
I don't even care the geopolitics of it. Solar and EVs are cheaper for the average person and better for the environment