Jonathan Rauch on the Volt, Risk, and Corporate Culture
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The Story of the EV1
The EV1 is the car that my listeners and occasionally readers of my blog write me about. I spent a lot of time inside GM talking to the people building the vault who it turns out are many of the same people who built the EV1. Back in 1988 GM's engineers entered an international electric car challenge. In terms of its reduced rolling friction, its aerodynamics, the battery, the internal control that was an astonishing piece of work. But guess what? Its range is initially like 70 or 80 miles. Never gets higher than 110.
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