nathan christiansn via EV wrote:
Thanks to everyone who shared their experiences about the EV1. I was glad
to hear from Lawrence that there are still a few EV1s still around.
In my opinion, it is VERY suspicious that (except in rare cases) GM only
leased the EV1 and never sold it. It's almost like they were planning on
crushing all of them from the very beginning....
It's a very complicated story. As others have suggested, try reading
"The Car That Could" by Michael Shnayerson.
GM is a vast corporation. It's been said that every general fights the
last war. But some recognize that the situation has changed, and so can
fight and win the current war. And there are a very few great generals,
who can think ahead to prepare what is needed to win the *next* war.
So GM steered a zig-zag course, back and forth between the future and
the past. When Stempel was CEO, he steered toward an EV future. When he
was ousted, Jack Smith took over, and all but killed the EV1 program. He
was a finance guy; and only interested in short-term profits.
He got replaced by Rick Wagoner, another MBA. He finished the job of
killing the EV1, as well as being CEO during GM's bankruptcy.
Perhaps the "new" GM has found a few forward-thinking generals.
Certainly, they have admitted that killing the EV1 was a mistake, and
have gone on to produce hybrids and pure EVs. But it doesn't take much
more than a bad year or two for the old generals to return to power, and
go back to fighting (and probably losing) the "last war".
Lee Hart
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A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is
nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
-- Antoine de Saint Exupery
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