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442. Is it Too Late for General Motors to Go Electric?

Freakonomics Radio

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How Does It Go Without Gas and Air?

G m began prototyping electric vehicles in the nineteen eighties, well before tesla existed. The company built more than a thousand e v ones, and en yo will ask, how did we go so long without it? It isn't donei but in two thousand three, g m shut down production of the e v one. G m began backing away from electric vehicles just as tesla was getting started.

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