"Plug In Hybrids"The Car that Could
Michael Shnayerson, 1996, Random House
In 1996 GM's long-awaited fast and revolutionary, all-electric EV1 made its debut. Michael Shnayerson's sensational saga tells a tale of perseverance, ingenuity, courage, hope, conflict, success and betrayal.
The reader is lead down winding corporate hallways, drawn into tense, airless boardrooms where behind heavy doors the future of electric transportation is plotted, planned and debated.
When the first EV1 at last rolled silently off the plant floor, "its craftsman got into the car and turned it on. No smell of carbon monoxide infused the air. No emissions at all. And so the worker did what no automotive assembly worker had ever been able to do. He pushed the forward button, depressed the accelerator and simply drove it to Station # 6. The future had arrived."
Or had it?
