![]() ![]() Car companies didn't want electric vehicles on the road because they work BETTER than gas guzzlers and a lot of revenue comes from people having to replace parts in their car.This is interesting because it is so absolutely typical of an enduring American paranoia about capitalism and big corporations. They would just be TOO RELIABLE and anybody could fix most problems. But motor vehicle companies didn't want to make electric vehicles because they would eliminate the monopoly of mega-corporations in building cars. The second coming of the electric car was around 15 years ago when GM released the EV1 with NiMH batteries that got a range of around 100 miles. At the end of an upbeat article at New Scientist on the future of electric cars, a commenter wrote this:
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