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Re:Boring Co. gets permission to begin digging in Maryland by mozumder on Friday October 20, 2017 @07:33PM (#15519812)
I'm not sure why you thought no one was doing EV research when GM actually produced and sold the EV1 before Tesla?
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Re:Boring Co. gets permission to begin digging in Maryland by hinkley on Friday October 20, 2017 @08:32PM (#15520012)
The EV1 was either a setup or government Pork. You put all the troublemakers on a project and then kill it and get the stink of failure all over them. And you get money from the government at the same time.

The only real benefit that came from the EV1 was the Toyota Prius. Because Toyota thought the US was serious about The Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles and they built the Prius to compete.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partnership_for_a_New_Genera...

Didn’t know at the time they would be the only ones to show up...

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Re:Boring Co. gets permission to begin digging in Maryland by cracell on Friday October 20, 2017 @07:55PM (#15519893)
EV1 ones stopped being made in 1999.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1

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Re:Boring Co. gets permission to begin digging in Maryland by greglindahl on Saturday October 21, 2017 @03:51PM (#15523307)
Yes, after the EV1 was an unexpected smash hit in the marketplace, GM went on to be the #1 vendor of electric cars for the next decade! Musk completely ignored that.
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