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At Witz' End - EV1 - The Real Story, Part II

Note: read part one of this story here. Pause and rebirth I joined the GM EV effort in April, 1991 and began pulling together a small team of test and development engineers and technicians at GM's Proving Grounds near Milford, MI. One vivid early memory was driving the Impact concept car down a long, steep Proving Grounds hill early one August morning on the way to demonstrate it to a meeting of GM's Board of Directors. There was a sweeping curve near the bottom of this hill that I routinely drove nearly every day on my way to test tracks. ... Read more →

Blast from the past: 1991 CNN report on GM Impact Lascelles Linton

Tell me if anything from this 1991 report (see video below the fold) by CNN sounds familiar. First introduced at the LA Auto Show, GM planned to sell a 120 mile range electric car very soon. The ...

At Witz' End - EV1 - The Real Story, Part II 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Note: read part one of this story here. Pause and rebirth I joined the GM EV effort in April, 1991 and began pulling together a small team of test and development engineers and technicians at GM's Proving Grounds near Milford, MI. One vivid early memory was driving the Impact concept car down a ...

Blast from the past: 1991 CNN report on GM Impact 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Tell me if anything from this 1991 report (see video below the fold) by CNN sounds familiar. First introduced at the LA Auto Show, GM planned to sell a 120 mile range electric car very soon. The electric car would be produced in Michigan, with an initial production of twenty thousand and an ...


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