May 8, 2009
Colleges Drive Research on Electric Cars
As the General Motors Corporation shuts assembly plants and veers toward bankruptcy, the lonely remnants of one of its top technological achievements — the first modern mass-produced electric car — lie scattered across a few dozen American college campuses.
GM produced and leased to customers more than 1,000 "EV1" automobiles beginning in 1996. In an act still decried by environmentalists, the company took them off the road in 2003 and crushed them into scrap
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