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Originally Posted by D-EJ915
there's no way those batteries cost $10k dude  that's just laughable |
You have no clue what you're talking about
Go price out batteries for a current UPS power supply with similar power specs to what was in the EV-1, as the technology is somewhat similar. Now keep in mind that that technology has been coming down in price for 10 years since the EV-1 was in production.
Bottom line was maintenance costs were assanine and GM lost shit loads of money so they pulled the plug. There was no grand conspiracy.
I also love the antipollution crowd that jumps on the electric car bandwagon but doesn't stop to consider that on average current electrical energy production is MUCH dirtier than gasoline, especially in the eastern US where coal burning power plants are still common.
Now if people would get their heads out of their asses and start building pebble bed nuclear reactors, wind turbine farms, and solar arrays so we have cheap clean electricity it might be a different story. (and again before someone spouts off about unsafe nuclear power plants, TMI, Cherboyble, etc please do some research on the type of reactor I'm talking about)