Sad to see this channel go, since it was one of my favorite channels. Those sorts of stories are right up my alley, sort of a car themed History Guy.

Great video, and the best of luck to the host on your future endeavors

Those were around when I was a kid. I live near the big 3 companies. Iv seen all kinds of weird experimental cars. Ever seen a propane powered Pontiac Bonneville.

Just found this channel. Great content and I hope it lives on. Good luck to you though and thanks putting out all these stories to live on

How different could the car market have been if there were more incentives to develop and sell electric cars? How much pollution would have been avoided? Good video!

I'm a Tesla owner but, the possibilities of the EV1 could've been the start of the EV revolution before Tesla. What a haunting mystery of thoughts what could've put GM on top in Technology today.

Thanks for the video, best of luck on your feature endeavors. Hopefully the next host is just as great as you, if we get one

All the best in your next endeavors. The EV really was a vehicle worthy of continued development

GM could have been a leader. Too many MBA's!

Sadly, BIG OIL and GREED killed the EV1...😪 It would be nice if GM would "Recreate" the EV1 with a similar Body Shape but with seating for 4-5 Passengers!

So sad. GM had a terrific start and threw it all away. I had a Volt and we loved it! Now that is gone. If GM built an EV1 today I would buy it! The Bolt, not so much. Aerodynamics is key and the EV1 was the top of the list! I was lucky enough to get to see and sit in one at Penn State! Lifetime experience!!

I got to work on an EV1 in 1996. I worked as a researcher for a collision equipment company, and got to put the car up in a rack, and start pulling parts off

Kind of sad it took a second fuel crisis and an oil war to make us realize we need reduce fuel consumption and produce electric vehicles.

Thank you very much for the past. Let us know if you open a new KZfaq channel. It was always a pleasure listening to you! Multumesc si la revedere, speram sa va vedem din nou in curand.

Damn I just subscribed and then at the end of the video he says this is the last video! Doh!!

It was simple. GM hated being told what to do ie. making the EV-1. So GM told the world that nobody wanted an electric car due to short range(140mi), limited storage (2 seater small trunk) limited power (little over 100hp) etc. etc. but the 1000 customers wanted to buy the car.....😮

Bummed to lose this channel if we cant get a host. Excellent content and presentation. Best wishes, you will be missed.

Thank you for this compehensive and well researched video!

Well done.

Thank you for all of the videos. Great historical automotive content!

*Imagine how far-forward we would be with EV's if the gas industry didn't kill this car*

No one killed the EV1. GM was not allowed to sell the EV1 to the public. The whole thing was a design & marketing study that made it possible for Electic Cars to pass US DOT. However, GM was not able to sell the cars after the design & marketing test period for use on public roads. They did use them for transportation on GM Factories and Research & Development sites for years after they took them off public roads... Ironically, GM sells the best practical EV available in the US, the Chevy Bolt, which also has the best Electric-Braking-System and the best support for parts & service. This is no surprise since GM had been working on Hybrid & EV Technology since the late 1960s... When they made the Chevy Volt, GM made the best Hybrid. But Hybrids are flawed since they have an ICE Emissions Control System, Drive Batteries & an Automatic Transmission to maintain. While EV's have a lower cost of maintenance lacking the ICE Emissions Control System and having only a simple Gear Reduction Box for a Transmission... So GM made the Chevy Bolt, an economical EV Commuter Car as soon as Battery Technology made it possible to have a sufficient range without costing a fortune. The Bolt won't have the insane costs for insurance & service that Tesla has, and it isn't overweight like the Nissan Leaf is. If you own a garage that you can install a 220 VAC Charger Circut in then the Bolt is practical to own either as a second car for a family, or your only car, provided that you don't take long trips...

surprised there was no mention of the chevy s10 ev. i believe it used the same powertrain as the ev1.

I think there was a slippery slope (oil) to climb behind the real reason GM stopped the EV progression, they had it down very early and we all would be driving electric by now breathing clean air and no dependence on foreign oil or having oil tycoons running our country.

Who killed the electric car?

Car is supposed to be a PART of the system (roads, gas stations/chargers, service, and so on). Not a stand alone thing. Its cool to test a novelty, but buying it (service, repower, and so on) is a whole different story.

Watch the documentary, Who killed the EV

Corporation: planet saving tech that loses us money? No way the public could want that 🙃 Mother Nature: Guess I'll just die then 🤷‍♀️

Sorry to see you go.

I was a little kid in early 2000s when I first heard of this and thought "why'd they change their mind and destroy them if it was good and the owners wanted to keep them" it just seemed odd how it all ended

One of the biggest screwup GM did was killing it before it became something!!😩😢💔

The petrodollar that's the real reason. That car could be made right now and be sold by the thousands.

0:35 exept 10 years earlier none other than NASA build 2 electric cars (Artur Chmielewski with a team- today Project Manager Jet Propulsion Laboratory). They were told yo scrap it before they could present it @ auto show. Probably same forces ended EV1 existence.

GM is a dinosaur 🦕. It’s too big for its environment to sustain.

GM cars of the 80ties sucked.

Simple as that: We had this Topic in Professional School for Car Mechatronics. GM was not allowed to Produce any more Ev1's. Oilcompanys dont only Produce Oil and Fuel. They also brings the Oil for Plastic and Rubber - thousand things around Carmanufacturing.. (Think about it how much Plastic/Rubber~Oil is in a Car if every Plastic thing is out of Oil) Oilcompanys refuse all together to all Carmanufactures the HUGE rebates in ProductionOil for the Plastics/Rubber if they dont stop with the EV Game. That will hit every produced Cars, and not onla the EV's. Car Manufacturer gets these Days huge discounts on Oil for Production -> if the finished Product is burning "Gasoline or Diesel". It is like the Printer thing.. Buy the Printer Cheap to have the need on theyre expensive Refills) And it starts for EV's Production Oil Companys should STILL give huge discounts for a Product which on End works against them ?! Shurely not.

I think GM is the worst Enemy for GM?, The bad Management and Marketing have destroyed GM brands one after another

Electronic cars is not 0 emmisions.

I think some of your dates are off. You are about a decade off. GM had shut the EV1 program down in the late 1980s.

Why saturn idk, might have sold even more if it was a chevy, amazing here we go again gm is going full evs again... work at the new ultium plant its really cool!