Hmmmm.  So, GM holding on to these electric vehicles would be like VW 
holding on to bay window buses.  But, VW put out a new product to 
replace the bay window.  GM has yet to put out a new product to replace 
the EV, which leasees loved and wanted to buy.  GM didn't want the EV to 
be available, for many reasons, but that it was obsolete is very 
unlikely to have been one of them.  That it would be difficult to make 
money on them at a price people would pay is likely to have been a big 
one.

David McNeely

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Doug Olson wrote:

> I encourage everybody to watch this film, to get the facts straight.
>
> People were begging to drop the leases and purchase these vehicles.
>
> And these "old EVs" were very good technology, especially relative to 
> the era, which was not very long ago.
>
>
>
> --- On Thu, 10/8/09, Tom Hargrave  wrote:
>
> From: Tom Hargrave Subject: Re: "Who Killed the Electric Car" NVC but 
> timely..(sorry for off              topic, moderators and list)
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Date: Thursday, October 8, 2009, 11:10 PM
>
> They were squashed because GM decided to stop bleeding cash on the 
> forever
> lease they were on. And today's electric technology is far superior to 
> the
> old EVs anyway.
>
> In other words, holding on to the old EVs would be like VW holding on 
> to the
> bay window bus instead of evolving to the van that was converted to 
> your
> Vanagon!
>
> Thanks,
> Tom Hargrave
> 256-656-1924
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On 
> Behalf Of
> Don Hanson
> Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 10:31 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: "Who Killed the Electric Car" NVC but timely..(sorry for off 
> topic,
> moderators and list)
>
>   West Coast sat TV is showing the movie right now, 8:30pm on PGN 
> network.
> A documentary about EVs that were in production quite some time ago 
> and
> 'squashed' by various special interests.
>   Don Hanson