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The 1990 GM Impact electric concept car. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the automobile industry saw little progress in electric car development; over 80 percent of vehicles produced in the United States featured V8 engines. [8][12] But shifts in federal and state regulations began to influence this.
17 cze 2024 · “We were so far ahead,” says Arianna Kalian, who worked as an engineer on GM’s electric car program from 1990 to 1997, “not just in the EV powertrain but also in aluminum body structure...
30 wrz 2024 · How The GM EV1 Kicked Off A Modern EV Revolution In The 1990s. The electric car may have been infamously "killed" later on, but in the '90s, the EV1 set the world onto the path we're on...
8 kwi 2021 · Twenty-five years ago, General Motors kicked off the modern age of electric vehicles when it rolled out the EV1. Here’s how those who lived the saga remember it.
7 lip 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-resistance tires, keyless...
21 kwi 2021 · When the EV1 appeared in the early 1990s, several automakers were working on electric versions of existing models to meet the then-new California zero-emission vehicle mandate, but GM went with a...
20 kwi 2022 · Back in the '90s before electric vehicles became a thing, General Motors embarked on an ambitious project: it was going to build a fully electric vehicle known as the EV1.