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Originally Posted by shoeaholicanon
that's interesting.
im guessing it was more expensive then than gas cars perhaps?
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No according to the movie the EV1 was something like 22k back in the late 90's. They also had a waiting list to buy them and had to force people to give them up because GM only leased them.
Just to show you who wanted them gone, a group of activists wanted to buy back the last remaining cars because GM was destroying them all. They offered GM 1.3 million (the buy back lease price for all the cars think it was 70 of them) and GM turned them down.
If you watch the movie they had a few actors Tom Hanks and Mel Gibson whom both had them and loved them.
Personally I've always watched the hybrids and electric cars and it always seemed to me that the car companies went out of their way not to sell them to you. The cars were always ugly and you almost never saw any advertisements for them until the last few years.
There is a market for them but the car companies don't want to produce them.