hey everyone, i sent GM an email saying how angry i was about what they did to the EV-1.. here's the email i got in response:
Customer Relationship Specialist: Carol Bella
Dear Mr. Borowski,
Thank you for contacting the General Motors Customer Assistance Center. We
appreciate you taking the time to write us in regards to your concern.
We appreciate you advising General Motors of your concerns and providing us the
opportunity for review as we recognize individuals have many different views.
In 1996, GM’s EV1 was the first big breakthrough towards reducing America’s
dependency on fossil fuels. It was a great technology for its day, a great
concept and a great car. GM was and is proud to have brought the electric
vehicle concept as far as it did and further than any other electric vehicle
project attempted by any other automaker around the globe. Sadly, despite the
substantial investment of money and the enthusiastic fervor of a relatively
small number of EV1 drivers, the EV1 proved far from a viable commercial
success.
The good news for electric car enthusiasts is that although the EV1 program did
not continue, both the technology and the GM engineers who developed it did. In
fact, the technology is very much alive, has been improved and carried forward
into the next generation of low emission and zero emission vehicles that are
either on the road, in development or just coming off the production line. As a
matter of fact, on Nov. 28 at the Los Angeles Auto Show, GM Chairman and CEO
Rick Wagoner announced that GM’s Saturn brand intends to produce a VUE Green
Line plug-in electric/gasoline hybrid vehicle that will use a modified version
of GM’s 2-mode hybrid system.
More amazing discoveries regarding alternative fuel vehicles are on the way from
GM. To learn more about the EV1 and all it has inspired, visit
onlyGM.com/electric.
General Motors recently announced the Chevrolet Volt concept electric vehicle.
The Volt, for most daily commutes, could nearly eliminate going to the gas
station altogether and greatly reduce tailpipe emissions. It employs GM’s new
E-flex system, which is a flexible propulsion system that produces electricity
and fits into a common chassis. Its on-board generator is capable of converting
and storing electricity from energy carriers such as hydrogen, gasoline, E85,
bio-diesel and diesel.
The E-flex system is being developed for production intent. Core engineering
and manufacturing feasibility studies are underway. However, we are not making
a production announcement, nor will we predict when the Chevrolet Volt will come
to market. Battery technology is maturing quickly. Consequently, we are
accelerating engineering development of the E-flex technology, which will enable
us to take advantage of advances in batteries as they occur. When the battery
is ready, we will be, too. Visit
Electric Car: Chevrolet Volt: Chevrolet for more
information.
If you should need to contact us in the future, simply reply to this message or
call our General Motors Customer Assistance Center at 1-800-762-2737. Customer
Relationship Specialists are available Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to
11:00 p.m., Eastern Time.
General Motors supports Buckle Up America. We encourage you, your family and
your friends to always Buckle Up.
Again, thank you for contacting General Motors.
Sincerely,
The General Motors Consumer Support Team
what a bunch of crap huh? the people who drove these cars LOVED them and fought to keep them.. but what did GM do? CRUSHED them, brand new cars. people even raised OVER 1 million dollars to buy 70 of the vehicles that were going to be crushed.. GM sold out and crushed the cars anyway...
