(The EV1 ) Electric Vehicle Number One. And Why It Was Destroyed by General Motors!
Joseph Raglione
March 21, 2010
VIN 4G5PX2250V0200646
Returned to GM 25.November.2003 with 29,297 miles on the odometer
Please click links at http://www.evnut.com To view photos of EV1.
We were fortunate to secure one of the final 2-year leases on an EV1 - the first modern production full-featured EV by GM. We took delivery of this car on 27.November.2001, and it had 11,743 miles on the clock. On 25.November.2003, we were forced to return the car to GM. This is the car that Kim and I fought over. Our EV1 commuted 40 miles every day on about 10 kWh of electricity from the socket ($1 of electricity - if we actually purchased our electricity. See my solar page). Generally, this car was charged in our garage for about 1.5 hrs/day, during off-peak hours, while we slept. When our lease ran out, we had no choice but to give it up. GM would not extend the leases nor allow the vehicles to be purchased for any price. As far as I know, this is the only time in history that perfectly good cars were taken off the road by the manufacturer - especially painful when these are among the very few cars that are part of the solution. Of the 1150 EV1s that were ever made, there are likely just two or three still driving around. The last private lease expired in August of 2004.
The EV1 movie that I made just before returning the car to GM. It wasn't long after taking this video that my beautiful car was destroyed.
http://www.evnut.com/
This little Car was working fine but it did not sell Gas or Oil and so General Motors, backed by the Oil cartels and their Republican political champions, G.W. Bush and Dick Cheney; repealed, crushed and destroyed it from the face of the Earth.
Returned to GM 25.November.2003 with 29,297 miles on the odometer
Please click links at http://www.evnut.com To view photos of EV1.
We were fortunate to secure one of the final 2-year leases on an EV1 - the first modern production full-featured EV by GM. We took delivery of this car on 27.November.2001, and it had 11,743 miles on the clock. On 25.November.2003, we were forced to return the car to GM. This is the car that Kim and I fought over. Our EV1 commuted 40 miles every day on about 10 kWh of electricity from the socket ($1 of electricity - if we actually purchased our electricity. See my solar page). Generally, this car was charged in our garage for about 1.5 hrs/day, during off-peak hours, while we slept. When our lease ran out, we had no choice but to give it up. GM would not extend the leases nor allow the vehicles to be purchased for any price. As far as I know, this is the only time in history that perfectly good cars were taken off the road by the manufacturer - especially painful when these are among the very few cars that are part of the solution. Of the 1150 EV1s that were ever made, there are likely just two or three still driving around. The last private lease expired in August of 2004.
The EV1 movie that I made just before returning the car to GM. It wasn't long after taking this video that my beautiful car was destroyed.
http://www.evnut.com/
This little Car was working fine but it did not sell Gas or Oil and so General Motors, backed by the Oil cartels and their Republican political champions, G.W. Bush and Dick Cheney; repealed, crushed and destroyed it from the face of the Earth.
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