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Old 07-21-2006, 04:50 AM
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Default Re: Who Killed the Electric Car?

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Originally Posted by blinkard
You have to wonder if GM has at least held a meeting to discuss bringing back the EV1.
It's not well known, but GM also had a plug-in hybrid version of the EV1 on the roads. It had a smaller (ie cheaper and lighter) battery, but also a very small gasoline engine as a range extender.

So they already have the plans for and some experience of plug-in hybrids. The engineers that worked on that should still be lurking somewhere in the GM system - perhaps they have been revived to surprise us all?
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