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GM EV1 not the only EVs shredded; Honda killed 340 EVs

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G. David Felt

Alternative Fuels & Propulsion writer

www.CheersandGears.com

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It seems the dirty laundry of other car companies is coming to light as people dig into the history of the EV movement. GM joined the lawsuit with other automobile manufacturers and oil industry to successfully kill the early laws that California passed to promote electric vehicles. In turn, GM killed its EV1 project. All the bad publicity surrounded the death of the EV1 ignores so many other automobile manufacturers which also worked to kill off the EV movement of the nineties. As GM took the brunt of the heat for shredding all its EV1 autos, Honda also silently killed off its Honda EV Plus electric cars. Honda manufactured approximately 340 EV Plus vehicles between 1997 and 1999. Subsequently, all the manufactured EV Plus vehicles were shredded. Honda was the first auto manufacturer to use NiMH batteries compared to GM's use of Lead Acid batteries.

The full story and write up is here on EV.com web site along with a very interesting video. You can move the video to 16:50 to see the EV Plus taken to be destroyed.

http://ev.com/honda-ev-plus-shredded-like-gms-ev1/

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Electric holds a lot of potential. When Tesla motors Corp comes in the market with the new electric family car, I want t be in position to buy one.

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