The Car That Could: The Inside Story of GM's Revolutionary Electric Vehicle
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (926 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 067942105X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 295 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Only one half the story, The second half and the most crucial was after the book was published." according to REN. This is only the first chapter in the great EV fiasco. The real story happened after the book was published. The whole book outlines the rise of GM's attempt to mass produce an electric vehicle. GM threw away all the goodwill when it abruptly ended the program and literally crushed both the cars and the drivers of these vehicles. The former was literally crushed and the latter was spiritually crushed. Now I know GM did not want to service or be liable for keeping the cars "alive" after the lease, but people were IN TEARS as they saw their . V. R. Padgett said The Story Behind the Most Successful Modern Electric Car. Shnayerson tells the story up to when the GM Impact was introduced. The film "Who Killed the Electric Car?" got me interested in electric cars. The GM Impact (EV1) was the most successful modern electric car, but it disappeared into the crushers shortly after its introduction.His story is that of a dedicated crew inside GM working against budget cuts and management changes to make the car. It is a good read.A shortcoming is that there are so many major characters-- A new one on each page in some chapters. One is Ken Baker, who runs through. christopher bonotto said Five Stars. great book but the sebring citicar was the first to be made in produchen
Unprecedented secrecy surrounded the early development of General Motors's Impact. Shnayerson watched the story unfold from a position of access never granted a reporter before--literally from the inside of the pace-setting GM Impact program. This is the first book to penetrate the silence surrounding GM's risky and successful decision to become the world's first mass producer of the electric car.
Schnayerson describes the supportive role of GM chairman Robert Stempel and the tenacity of a group of true-believing engineers who kept the idea alive after Stempel was ousted. . This project was decades in gestation, the early dreams of pollution and noise-free vehicles taking a long time to progress beyond visionary prototypes. Eventually a combination of government prodding and technological advances in battery design made it possible. The story of General Motors' first mass-produced electric car, the EV1 (at first, unfortunately, named the Impact). This was partly because of opposition to the concept from oil companies and the automotive industry