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Originally Posted by crockett
It might Suprise you, but GM made and sold on a lease electric cars back in the 80s or 90s I forget which. The majority of the people whom leased them loved them, but at the end of the lease GM forced everyone to turn them In and then GM crushed them. Despite the previous users wanting to buy them.
Turns out big oil was in on getting GM to walk away from the electric car which could of been a success in the 80s and 90s. You should look up the documentary called "who killed the electric car"
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They did LEASE them in the late 1990's. Never mass produced or sold (big oil and union made sure of that). It was called the EV1
Also electric cars were pretty big as far back as the late 1800's.
Matter of face the taxi cabs in New York City were electric over 100 years ago:
"The first taxicab company in New York City was the Samuel's Electric Carriage and Wagon Company, which began running 12 electric hansom cabs in July 1897. The company ran until 1898 with up to 62 cabs operating until it was reformed by its financiers to form the Electric Vehicle Company. The company then built the Electrobat electric car, and had up to 100 taxicabs running in total by 1899."
And now in 2015...Detroit still seems to be unable to match what was already being done in the 1890's. No wonder that town is in ruins.