News from Montgomery County Sentinel (Maryland):
[...] GM is running as hard as it can from the electric vehicles it has already designed and produced. The cars recharged for just pennies and were available on lease.
This change in direction at GM followed backpedaling by California on zero emissions standards.
"Despite the popularity of the GM EV-1 and [despite long ] waiting lists for the high-tech vehicle, General Motors terminated their customer's leases and sent the cars to the jaws of a crusher," says the Electric Vehicle Association of Greater Washington D.C. on their web page.
In response to the lack of domestic producers, some conscientious consumers are going out and buying electric Toyotas .
But John Kocher of Silver Spring, a computer specialist at the National Institutes of Health, went out and bought himself a 1985 Pontiac Fiero that had been already converted to run off batteries in 1991. After conversion, the car spent most of its time in a dealer showroom.
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