I came across this WIRED article that proclaimed in big letters:
Naturally is mentioned the catastrophic mistake GM made of investing a billion $ in the EV1 only to turn it into landfill and delete all its research and acquiring a bad reputation, and then as insult watch Toyota make a highly successful Prius that catapulted Toyota to top of the automotive mountain.
However it seems like Toyota is now making a serious mistake with its very late, just announced 2022 bZ4x , which apparently is also the same car that Subaru is going to make, the Solterra.
Lets not forget the first BEV that actually survived and in production today, the Nissan Leaf. A very early BEV, that is long overshadowed by new BEV's, not just Tesla.
Then Ford made and BEV Ford Focus Electric, and before that to compete with the EV1 the Ford Ranger EV.
The list is very long and sometimes surprising.
Hybrids plainly showed to companies the desire for more fuel efficient cars, and when Plug-In came along and its success (hello, Volt) it must have been daylight obvious that BEV was a big market.
So why was it the major car companies failed to get the cars and customers that an upstart company founded by guy whos hobbies is rockets take off like one?
How GM Beat Tesla to the First True Mass-Market Electric Car
and they are talking about theGM BOLT!
If you thought it might be an old article, you are correct, as in from February 2016.Naturally is mentioned the catastrophic mistake GM made of investing a billion $ in the EV1 only to turn it into landfill and delete all its research and acquiring a bad reputation, and then as insult watch Toyota make a highly successful Prius that catapulted Toyota to top of the automotive mountain.
However it seems like Toyota is now making a serious mistake with its very late, just announced 2022 bZ4x , which apparently is also the same car that Subaru is going to make, the Solterra.
Lets not forget the first BEV that actually survived and in production today, the Nissan Leaf. A very early BEV, that is long overshadowed by new BEV's, not just Tesla.
Then Ford made and BEV Ford Focus Electric, and before that to compete with the EV1 the Ford Ranger EV.
The list is very long and sometimes surprising.
Hybrids plainly showed to companies the desire for more fuel efficient cars, and when Plug-In came along and its success (hello, Volt) it must have been daylight obvious that BEV was a big market.
So why was it the major car companies failed to get the cars and customers that an upstart company founded by guy whos hobbies is rockets take off like one?