Ha ! re:
“It only took a *decade* for traditional automakers to take electric cars seriously ”
25 years – not “a decade” !!
Oh dear – yet another journalist begins with a favourite, typical EV myth that results from unresearched group-think and commonly-shared ignorance of the real ‘inconvenient’ history of electric cars since the early 1990’s.
Like so many, the author has for example clearly never watched the film “Who Killed the Electric Car” by Chris Paine…and has never heard of any of the following potentially game-changing EVs that were killed off before circa 2005 and which carmakers and our media fell over themselves to ignore and bury :
1) Toyota RAV4 EV (1997-2003)
2) GM EV1
3) BMW E1 (1992-1993 !) – a normal-looking four-seater hatchback with a TUV-tested range of 155 miles ! Repeat: 1992. 4-seat hatchback. 155 mile range.
4) the Solectria Sunrise. 4-seat saloon that achieved a range record of 373 miles on a charge at near-normal highway speeds in…1996 !!
Please research EVs if you’re gonna write about them – you have 24/7 web access and no excuses for ignorance. Especially as a journalist.
Ha ! re:
“It only took a *decade* for traditional automakers to take electric cars seriously ”
25 years – not “a decade” !!
Oh dear – yet another journalist begins with a favourite, typical EV myth that results from unresearched group-think and commonly-shared ignorance of the real ‘inconvenient’ history of electric cars since the early 1990’s.
Like so many, the author has for example clearly never watched the film “Who Killed the Electric Car” by Chris Paine…and has never heard of any of the following potentially game-changing EVs that were killed off before circa 2005 and which carmakers and our media fell over themselves to ignore and bury :
1) Toyota RAV4 EV (1997-2003)
2) GM EV1
3) BMW E1 (1992-1993 !) – a normal-looking four-seater hatchback with a TUV-tested range of 155 miles ! Repeat: 1992. 4-seat hatchback. 155 mile range.
4) the Solectria Sunrise. 4-seat saloon that achieved a range record of 373 miles on a charge at near-normal highway speeds in…1996 !!
Please research EVs if you’re gonna write about them – you have 24/7 web access and no excuses for ignorance. Especially as a journalist.