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Old 08-08-2005, 05:37 PM
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Default Re: Toyota now crushing EVs too!

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The automakers produced great electric cars to meet California's Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate. A few thousand people have driven the cars. But industry spent millions lobbying in Sacramento, sued in federal court and successfully eviscerated the mandate. Now Toyota, GM, and Honda are confiscating and destroying thousands of electric cars, despite offers of cash from satisfied customers. A small number of ZEV-mandated electric cars were offered for sale in California. They sold out quickly. The automakers won't even sell you the electric cars they've already made. They are crushing them instead. They only sell gas cars.
They have decided (for us) that electric vehicles aren't what we want, so instead of letting us buy them (as we'd happily do) they want to take them off the market until we (once again) force them to make them and sell them, again.

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