The electric vehicles built by GM and others were in response to legislation in California requiring 10 percent of vehicles sold in that state to be "zero emission" vehicles by 2003. GM had little choice: either develop an electric car or leave the California car market. (Even though Californians tend to favor imports over domestic vehicles, the huge size of the CA market still means a lot of business for the Big Three.)
There can be little doubt that GM sunk considerable investment into the design, engineering and manufacture of their electric car. The only problem was that the market wasn't really there. GM lost money on every car they leased. (GM refused to sell the vehicles; you could only lease them.) In the end, the automakers chose to sue California to relax the zero emission mandate, as there was no way (short of giving them away) that they could sell enough electric cars to meet the 10 percent zero emision vehicle mandate.
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Today's Featured Article - A Cautionary Tale - by Ian Minshull. In the early 1950s my father bought an Allis Chalmers B and I used it for all the row crop work with the mangolds and potatoes, rolling and the haymaking on our farm. The farm and the Allis were sold and I have spent a lifetime working on farms throughout the country. I promised myself that one day I would own an Allis. That time event
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