Why GM should remember the fate of the EV1

The dusty EV1s were crushed and stacked on each other like trash at the Arizona test track.

September 20, 2016 05:00 AM

BLOG06_160709968_H1_-1_ZXUIERENGYEQ.jpg Richard Truett covers technology and engineering for Automotive News.

The upcoming launch of the Chevrolet Bolt EV got me to think back to when I test drove a GM EV1 two-seat electric car in the summer of 1998, when I was the transportation writer for the Orlando Sentinel newspaper.

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