The automaker ended up crushing the vast majority of them. While a few empty shells exist in museums, they are strictly prohibited from ever driving again. But a new project has surfaced involving ...

It is the only EV1 in existence that can legally be made roadworthy again, after GM scrapped most of them and disabled the ...

A decade ago General Motors put one of the coolest cars of all time on the road, the EV1. While there were a number of hard-core EV enthusiasts who became passionately committed to the car, it never ...

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The EV1 was the first modern, mass-produced electric vehicle from a major automaker — pioneering some technologies you can still find in today's... This little electric car made history. 25 years ago, ...

GM spent $1.5 billion US producing the EV1, which was as state-of-the-art as possible at that time. General Motors knew the electric automotive age was coming when it showed its Impact electric ...

The General Motors EV1 has a fascinating story. In 1996, it became the first modern, mass-produced electric vehicle offered to the world. With 26 lead-acid batteries and a single electric motor making ...

It was the most reliable car he had ever driven — that's how Kris Trexler remembered his General Motors EV1. "It was just a car that I took home, plugged in at night, got up the next morning — it was ...