InsideEVs
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
It is hard to be an EV fan and not know a little about the EV1. Whether you were exposed to the EV1 through the 2006 documentary “Who Killed the Electri Car”, or if you have been a fan right from the beginning. I recently had the pleasure of spending the afternoon with John Dabels, the Marketing Director of the EV1.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 28, 2010
and what she thinks has been learned from the whole GM EV1 experience. Sexton is the Founder of the non-profit Lightning Rod Foundation, and a former General Motors EV1 Specialist. She is one of the key individuals featured in the 2006 film, “ Who Killed the Electric Car? ”.
Electric Auto Association
DECEMBER 1, 2022
2003 Washington Post article on crushing of EV1s. Early EV1 adopter While at graduate school in electrical engineering at Cornell University in Ithica, New York, Cox heard about the GM Impact , an electric vehicle (EV) program that General Motors had with Hughes Aircraft, a firm it had recently purchased. “I
Electric Auto Association
JANUARY 5, 2023
Straubel ’s August 2006 preview of the company’s Roadster at a chapter meeting. “We Lobbying EV1 style Pohorsky leased his first EV, a GM EV1 , in 1999. Freund recalled that Plug In America started when GM was engaged in taking back and crushing the EV1s. “And that entrepreneurship persists here in the valley.
Revenge of the Electric Car
SEPTEMBER 17, 2010
Storytelling is definitely a filmmaker’s business, and telling the story of the crushing of EV1s in 2006′s Who Killed the Electric Car? His answer was storytelling: if people hear about their friends and neighbors having success with electric vehicles, it will put EV on their radar and spread the cause.
Revenge of the Electric Car
OCTOBER 5, 2010
Read about her cautious optimism for GM’s new electric car in her recent blog post: “I first learned of the Chevrolet Volt while standing on a Minneapolis street corner on June 23, 2006. …read the rest of her blog post here.
Revenge of the Electric Car
JANUARY 21, 2009
2006), and you’ll learn that those once-dead electric vehicles (EVs) are now exacting a shocking revenge. Paine was one of the first to lease a General Motors EV1 in 1997 — only to get the car wrenched away from him five years later when he took it in simply to get a brake light fixed. And like the EV1, the RAV4’s been service-free.
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