Comments on: GM’s Electric History

By: kelly

kelly — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:53:15 +0000

Burns, a GM executive, said that if GM hadn’t dropped the EV1, we could have had the Volt ten years ago. Wagoner, CEO, still thinks EVs haven’t a financial impact.

It’s the “..are doomed to repeat it” part of history that makes the EV1 important. A bankrupt GM is still GM. They crush EVs – it’s what they do – it’s what they do best…

By: THOM

THOM — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:26:21 +0000

Gm learned alot…..however they will be the last at the table with an electric car!

By: TC1

TC1 — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:12:50 +0000

Interesting your rewrite of history on the failure of the EV1, but here are the facts:

1. Advertising. They had the most underwhelming campaign that still gives me nightmares. They didn’t want people to buy the vehicles. They wanted people to be afraid of them.

2. Wait list. See above. Had people KNOWN about the vehicle, they would have sign up for it. Nobody knew that the car existed and beside that, the stipulations that were placed upon people to even get on the waiting list and to receive the vehicle were more difficult than obtaining a $5million dollar loan from the bank.

GM needs to face the fact that they were the ones who had the technology and decided to bury it and sell the battery technology – to an oil company.

The Volt, which will drag itself off the racks in 2010 will not do anything to help this bloated company which needs to be retooled from the top on down. Bring someone in with some sense who is not tied to the oil company and them, maybe you’ll have some change take place.

By: JAKE SANDERS

JAKE SANDERS — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:51:40 +0000

I have understand ( clear it to me if not ) that exists a kind of electrical battery that it be charged with solar energy through a solar panel mounted on roof of any house so we don’t need to expense money to pay to the electrical company. May be the GM project are considering a kind os battery too expensive and only rechargable via electrical service in house.
I think if GM wants to release its electrical car, they should to consider benefits for its customers in order to not depends more of petroleum, (gasoline, generation of electricity(electric company)).

By: NZDavid

NZDavid — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:25:11 +0000

Shawn, in New Zealand we run 230VAC as does Australia and parts of Europe. In the UK they run 240VAC, the Volt will have a modern switchphase power supply and cope with them all, just like your computer does.

NPNS