INDUSTRY AGAINST AUTOMOTIVE INNOVATION: EV1

"GENERAL MOTORS EV1 (2-seat, 2-door coupe, range 75 to 150 miles with NiMH batteries)

"...An electric car produced and leased by the General Motors Corporation form 1996 to 1999 [note: concept car designed in 1990]....The EV1 was made available through limited lease-only agreements...The EV1's discontinuation [majority of cars crushed] remains controversial, with electric car enthusiasts, environmental interest groups and former EV1 lessees accusing GM of self-sabotaging its electric car program to avoid potential losses in spare parts sales, while also blaming the oil industry for conspiring to keep electric cars off the road..."---Wikipedia

NOTE: The Chevy VOLT, which will have a battery range of 40 miles, is actually a plug-in hybrid.

Update: "Achieving 100 mpg? Any bright engineer can go do that," declares Chris Theodore, vice chairman of ASC Inc., who advised the X Prize committee."

INDUSTRY AGAINST AUTOMOTIVE INNOVATION: Tucker

1948 TUCKER

"Speculation exists that the circumstances which brought the Tucker Corporation down were contributed to by the Big Three auto makers [GM]and Michigan Senator Homer Furguson."--- Wikipedia

(Note: see the 1988 movie, Tucker: The Man and His Dream)
(Note: GM's name comes up frequently in my posts... Remember, "What's good for GM is good for America")

"Build a better mouse trap, and the world will beat a path to your door?"









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INDUSTRY AGAINST AUTOMOTIVE INNOVATION: Dymaxion

DYMAXION CAR (1933; 30 mpg; 90-120 mph; rear engine; three wheels; eleven passengers)

"In his 1988 book "The Age of Heretics, Author Art Kleiner maintained that the real reason why Chrysler refused to produce the cars was because banker had threatened to recall their loans, feeling that the car would destroy sales for vehicles already in distribution channels and second-hand cars."---Wikipedia

"Build a better mouse trap, and the world will beat a path to your door?"