The General Motors EV1 is a battery electric car produced by the American automaker General Motors from 1996 until its demise in 1999. A subcompact car, the EV1 marked the introduction …

Jun 16, 2021 · Myth: GM walked away from electric vehicles after canceling the EV1. Truth: The momentum the EV1 program generated led to fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) research; …

Jan 19, 2016 · The EV1 was the first modern electric car designed for a mass market. Beginning in 1996, General Motors built 1,117 of the cars and leased most of them to consumers in …

Jul 7, 2021 · The General Motors team that developed the pioneering EV1 electric car had to invent new technologies that are now commonplace on EVs. Among them: low-rolling …

Oct 20, 2021 · GM developed from the prototype of the two-seater, battery electrically driven car “EV1” (Electric Vehicle 1). The EV1 was the first and only vehicle in this phase to be newly …

1997 General Motors EV1 VEHICLE TYPE front-motor, front-wheel-drive, 2-passenger, 2-door coupe. PRICE AS TESTED $33,995. MOTOR TYPE induction AC, 137 hp, 110 lb-ft; 16.5-kWh …

Trexler was one of the hundreds of people who got to drive an EV1 — the first modern, mass-produced electric vehicle from a major automaker. The little two-door car looked like a cross …

Nov 30, 2022 · Perhaps the biggest of these premature electric cars was the GM EV1. The automotive giant offered the car from 1996 until 2002, representing only two versions of the …

GM developed the EV1 to meet a requirement for emission-free vehicles in California. It was aerodynamic and had a sophisticated, computer-controlled energy management and …

Sep 30, 2024 · The EV1 was the world's first purpose-built EV that had enough range and performance to be a real alternative to combustion cars—it was excellent, according to those …