Why not wait for the big automakers?
I don’t expect to live that long. I’ve been waiting more than 30 years now since GM unveiled the ElectroVair II to see a mass-produced electric car available to consumers on an equal standing with the big automakers’ gasoline and diesel powered vehicles. It has not happened yet, and without a lot of prodding, I don’t believe it is something the big North American automakers will do on their own. They just have too much capital invested in gasoline engine plants and the support infrastructure for that type of drive train. Note that in 2003, GM started bringing the less than 1,000 EV1s they had allowed out on lease to send them to the crusher. None are being made available for resale. Presumably keeping EVs off the road, even in small numbers, is of more value to GM than the millions of dollars they could make by selling their existing inventory of EV1s. Perhaps the major automakers will get serious about electric vehicles some day – until then I am doing something positive and showing i
