Green Car Reports
JUNE 8, 2020
The electric car wasn't invented by Tesla with its Roadster, or by GM with the EV1. While mass-production commitments from Tesla, Nissan, Volkswagen. It goes back more than a century, with a long list of hopefuls hindered from widespread production by a complicated but familiar set of factors.
Green Car Reports
MAY 8, 2022
While we widely think of the General Motors EV1—or its preceding Impact concept car—as starting the era of the electric car. But there were others in that era, that followed a similar formula and might have potentially come to market earlier. One of them came from Nissan.
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
Green Car Reports
MAY 5, 2019
If your historical knowledge of electric cars goes back to the first Tesla Roadster, the GM EV1 or, perhaps, one of the many intriguing manufacturer conversions from the 1980s or ‘90s, you have many decades of what-ifs to catch up on.
Electric Auto Association
AUGUST 2, 2022
I even got him to buy a Tesla,” said Martinson, explaining that Hirt was an advisor and co-producer of the ARP film, Nation in Transition , an examination of the coal-to-renewables transition on the Navajo Nation and across northern Arizona. Martinson’s GM EV1. My first sustainability professor, Dr. Paul Hirt, became a close friend.
Clean Fleet Report
MARCH 26, 2022
1996 General Motors EV1. 2008 Tesla Roadster. 2008 Tesla Roadster. 2008 Tesla Roadster. 2009 Tesla Model S prototype. 2009 Tesla Model S prototype. 2009 Tesla Model S Prototype. Corbin Sparrow. 1996 Corbin Sparrow. 50 mile range. 100 mile range. Nissan Hypermini. Nissan Hypermini. 72 mile range.
Revenge of the Electric Car
NOVEMBER 12, 2008
My brand new silver all-electric Tesla Roadster sportscar (#23) arrived by truck in Los Angeles yesterday. Shrouded in plastic and tucked into the back of a semi with three other Tesla’s, it waited to be rolled onto the streets of Los Angeles. A day when Tesla too has challenges, but a car in-hand. It’s alive!
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