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Originally Posted by GrnMchin
GM built 1,117 of the cars between 1996 and 1999, including 660 "Generation I" EV1 cars in the 1997 model year (1996-97) and 457 "Generation II" EV1 cars in the 1999 model year (1998-99). Then crushed them all that wasn't that financially smart ether. Some offered to buy the cars and I'm sure they wanted to protect R&D secrets, but that argument that they cost to much makes me scratch my head when they end up crushing them. If your not going to sell them why produce so many. There is allot that goes into car production so please educate me. If they made it a smaller R&D project and spent a little less maybe when Honda and Toyota came out GM could have buried them.  |
1,117 units produced in 3 years is nowhere near high production. I believe GM sold close to that number of Corvettes just last month.
Did you read my previous reply to this thread? If GM decided to allow the people who wanted to buy one to keep their EV1s and something went wrong, GM would be liable. It's the same reason GM has to crush IVER cars and can't sell those to the public, even though some here have expressed interest in buying one of the Camaro IVERs. In the end, it cost less to just be safe and dispose of the cars than risk potential lawsuits.