- Signatures: 2,644
- Goal: 100
- Deadline: 10-3-2003
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GM is suing to avoid producing its EV1 electric car after sabotaging test marketing in California. Thousands signed for it, but only 1500 were ever made.
Forced by a clean-air mandate, General Motors built 1500 EV1 highway-capable electric vehicles (EVs) from 1996-1999.
The EV1 is fast, safe and well-equipped, having been designed from the ground up as an EV; drivers love the car. GM test-marketed only to affluent consumers in southern California, available only by lease. Promotion for the EV1 was limited and omitted offers for sale.
The EV1 was withdrawn from production after the California zero-emission vehicle mandate was relaxed, the company arguing that there is no demand for EV1s, in spite of the thousands on waiting lists for the car. There are currently only about 5000 EVs of all makes in the United States.
A study, The Current and Future Market for Electric Vehicles, was done by the experienced automotive market research company, the Dohring Company, for the Green Car Institute. The expected sales of EVs in the US would start at 12,000 to 24,000 a year and expand toward 180,000 to 270,000 sales yearly in five years. Conclusion: “The market for EVs exists. It is simply awaiting the right products, properly marketed to meet consumer needs, to blossom.”
http://www.greencar.com/gci/gcimarketing.pdf
93% of Americans polled recently support clean-air transportation. Most would even pay more for it. GM is currently suing the California Air Resources Board in an attempt to evade all zero-emission vehicle requirements. GM is ignoring a profitable market at the behest of the oil industry. "Taken for a Ride", by Jack Doyle, is a comprehensive study of automakers' history of resistance to all safety and fuel-efficiency improvements.
We, the undersigned, in support of energy independence and clean air, ask that GM begin selling electric vehicles to the American public.
| Number | Date | Prefix | Name | State | Country | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,649 | 3:45 am PST, Mar 5 | Anonymous | Vermont | United States | We just saw 'Who Killed the Electric Car' last night and it was quite the revelation. It made me so angry that the technology is out there and consumers are trying to buy it and everybody from the lobbyists to the oil industry to the car companies are killing it. I can't believe that GM is asking for bailout money (again!) when they could have saved their own a**es and produced the EV1. The demand is out there, but they are too weak to stand up to the oil industry. I will never buy a car, and will make sure my children never buy a car, from GM/Ford/Chrysler ever! I say let them all go bankrupt and make room for companies that want to invest in new technology. | |
| 2,648 | 7:16 pm PST, Feb 10 | Mr. | Joseph Regina | New York | United States | |
| 2,647 | 5:51 pm PST, Feb 6 | Amy Ernest | Texas | United States | SHAME SHAME SHAME on General Motors! | |
| 2,646 | 9:59 pm PST, Feb 3 | Austin Peterson | South Dakota | United States | ||
| 2,645 | 8:39 pm PST, Jan 14 | Mr. | Anonymous | New York | United States | Screw GM. The plans have been sent to Japan where it is upgraded as the Predecessor EV01. Take that you greedy bastards! |
| 2,644 | 1:56 pm PST, Dec 22 | Mr. | Mike Ellison | Texas | United States | I have promised myself, I will not buy another new vehicle untill I have a choice other than one that burns Gasoline |
| 2,643 | 8:47 pm PST, Dec 20 | Ms. | Anonymous | California | United States | |
| 2,642 | 10:45 am PST, Dec 18 | Mr. | troy krahl | Minnesota | United States | |
| 2,641 | 9:03 pm PST, Nov 29 | Mr. | sean brown | Texas | United States | WE NEED THIS CAR!!!!!!!! ITS AWSOME AND IT IS SUPER SEXY MORE OF A SPORTS CAR LOOK TO ME OH AND WERE IN AN OIL CRISIS |
| 2,640 | 4:44 pm PST, Nov 24 | katie g | North Carolina | United States | I have not personally owned a car in 10 years and refuse to buy one until there are zero emissions vechicles available for purchase, not just a lease. I wish more people would boycott cars and use the alternatives, it is better for your health, wealth, and the environment. | |
| 2,639 | 7:42 am PST, Nov 22 | Anonymous | Texas | United States | GM is begging for part of the Government Bailout to stay in business. There was and is huge demand, despite anti-marketing, for the EV-1. Government assisitance should be granted ONLY with accompanying clean air mandates in each state and the electric vehicles must be offered for sale as well as lease. | |
| 2,638 | 7:23 pm PST, Nov 21 | Ms. | Katrine Ireland | Canada | I agree that any financial help GM get should be conditional on them bringing back the EV1 and making it widely available to markets everywhere. Family-sized electric vehicles should also be develped and marketed. Big gas-guzzlers should be banned and only Hybrids and electric cars produced from now on. This needs to be legislated! | |
| 2,637 | 5:43 pm PST, Nov 19 | julian weatherby | Nevada | United States | Don't give GM a dime, get rid of the Hummers and bring back the EV1 just like it was. Then give them the money for that program only. US is tired of getting jacked up for GM execs and oil companies to screw with no vaseline. | |
| 2,636 | 5:22 pm PST, Nov 15 | Anonymous | Connecticut | United States | ||
| 2,635 | 5:45 pm PST, Nov 7 | Mr. | Jan Miller | Ohio | United States | First these morons at GM shelve the hydrogen "HyWire" project, and now this! Instead of getting a bail-out from Congress, GM execs deserve a drag-out" into the street for a public stoning by their stockholders for unbelievable greediness and incompetence. |
| 2,634 | 1:54 am PST, Nov 7 | Mr. | Frederic Lebet | Switzerland | ||
| 2,633 | 7:03 pm PST, Nov 5 | nathan hatemum | Arizona | Afghanistan | bring back ev 1's | |
| 2,632 | 1:32 am PDT, Oct 21 | Mr. | Anonymous | Oregon | United States | Electric Car enthusiasts. If you would like to own a replica GM EV1 electric car please call 503 719 3439 for more information. We have 3... |
| 2,631 | 7:20 pm PDT, Oct 17 | Ms. | Maria Parker | Georgia | United States | I just watched "Who Killed the Electric Car" and am so angry I can't stand it. Think of the industry we denied our nation- the American jobs we could have created with automotive plants, with building re-charging stations- think about the $700 billion per year we could be saving by NOT buying oil from foreign countries!!! Our government isn't serious about being energy independent- they had the chance and chose big oil money over our best interest. We have been sold out. |
| 2,630 | 4:49 pm PDT, Sep 8 | Mr. | keith krone | Arizona | United States | I had the chance to drive an ev1 in the mid 90s here in az.What a ride drove it for 2 days and wanted to keep it |
| 2,629 | 5:54 pm PDT, Aug 31 | Mrs. | Anne Stephens | North Carolina | United States | I saw "Who Killed the Electric Car?" and boy did GM blow it. This country (and GM) could be way ahead in the green movement if you had continued to manufacture and sell zero emission vehicles. What were you thinking? Get back on track and get going to get the EV1 back on the roads worldwide. |
| 2,628 | 8:26 am PDT, Aug 31 | Brian Gill | New Jersey | United States | ||
| 2,627 | 6:50 pm PDT, Aug 30 | Mrs. | Anonymous | Florida | United States | |
| 2,626 | 6:42 am PDT, Aug 27 | Anonymous | Kansas | United States | EV IS OVERDUE. THE WORLD THEATER OF AUTOS WILL PRODUCE ONE ANYWAY, BUT AMERICA NEEDS TO BE THE FIRST, FOR THE PLANET AND FOR THE NATIONAL PRIDE AND ECONOMY. BIG OIL WILL HAVE TO GET ON BOARD OR CHASE WIND MILLS AND NUCLEAR. | |
| 2,625 | 3:02 pm PDT, Aug 18 | eric wonderley | Virginia | United States | rick wagoneer is destroying stockholder value. obama is an ethanol addicted retard...ethanol fuels are a net negative energy process. | |
| 2,624 | 11:44 am PDT, Aug 12 | Karen Barth | Canada | For many years I have heard and seen prototypes of clean enviro clean vehicles on display but not in production for sale to the public. It is in the news everyday how we are polluting our world to the point that no matter where you go now you can not escape. It is not a question anymore of what the priority is...survival is clean energy plenty out there solar, electric, etc. We have the technology now and it should be used. The bottom line is you can not breath money and the big wigs in the oil, car manufacturers,and gov't are human and can't live with no oxygen and have to live on the planet like the rest of us. I will not purchase a gas powered vehicle.Bring back the EV and offer other transportation alternative technologies that have been invented and await production. | ||
| 2,623 | 8:09 pm PDT, Aug 9 | Mr. | Mark Muenzen | New Jersey | United States | It's about time that we stop praising the almighty dollar at the expense of the environment. I'm just as money hungry as any person out there, but I think it's an American travesty that we allow "Big Oil" to control the environment's future. If we are going to survive, we need to end oil dependency. |
| 2,622 | 12:37 pm PDT, Aug 8 | Mr. | Frank Szentmiklossy | Canada | It is time that we curtailed the lobbying efforts of automakers who has no desire to promote or manufacture electric vehicles. It is really too bad that their greed for today's profitability jepardizes tomorrow's environment. | |
| 2,621 | 2:44 pm PDT, Aug 7 | Mr. | Tine Albreht | Slovenia | We need electric car! | |
| 2,620 | 8:55 am PDT, Aug 5 | Mr. | shawn brideau | Canada | ||
| 2,619 | 1:09 pm PDT, Aug 4 | Nathan Hecht | Wisconsin | United States | I don't see the logic in not providing Americans with clean electric cars other than selling the cars may hurt the greedy oil companies which still seems like a good thing to me. Electric is clean and easy and it is vital that GM steps up to the plate and provides electric cars in order to meet the overwhelming demand from the American public. | |
| 2,618 | 11:39 pm PDT, Aug 3 | Mr. | jeff phillips | Florida | United States | my uncle came up with the idea for moble direction to be put into cars GM gave him 10,000 dollars for the idea he believed so much in general motors the company he worked for that he went right out an bought an oldsmoble from the division he worked for,even his mother my grandmother only drove oldsmobles as long as i can remmember. he would turn over in his grave if he knew what gm was doing now . back to the real problem what if all americans decided NOT TO PLAY THE GAME NO MORE what would happen to the car company then same thing that happen to beta video tape we just started riding bikes ,public transportation walked,or even made our own small electric cars,{2 batteries ,solar cell,ac dc converter,large battery charger,medium electric motor}. BAMM now you have a car with no GAS,no OIL,no water if we stop playing it must mean we have had enough of being taken for a ride . GENERAL MOTORS WAKE UP WHO DO U MAKE CARS FOR OIL COMPANYS OR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE YOU STAND BY US AND WE PROMISE TO STAND BY YOU MAKE THE ELECTRIC CAR AGAIN FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WITH HIGH QUIALTY AN SELL IT CHEAP AND WE THE PEOPLE WILL BUY ONLY AMERICAN MADE GENERAL MOTORS MADE CARS THAT WILL MAKE YOU RICH AGAIN AN OUR COUNTRY STRONG AN CLEAN,time to get back to the days of INNOCENCE FOR OUR CHILDRENS sake |
| 2,617 | 5:34 pm PDT, Aug 2 | John Terry | New York | United States | The EV1 would have been a great vehicle to drive especially with the newer battery technology. I drive only 40 miles each day. It would be wonderful to have a car I could plug in at night and drive the next morning to and from work. It is a crime yet to be defined, what GM did to their EV1 cars. It is a coverup and would have been greately effective in slowing global warming. The CARB (California Air Resources Board) bowed to pressure from the Oil companies to keep things as they are. But GM also caved in. GM made a big blunder. GM is in bad shape now but could have made a fortune building these cars and selling them. But I know that they say that there was no demand. Hey, I saw some of their commercials for the ELECTRIC CAR. It looked to me like they were selling dog poop instead of this classy looking car. They never even showed it.They did this intentionally because they wanted it to fail and not take off. The commercials were dark and morose. I strongly suggest they start building it soon again and this time let people buy them. I would be amoung the first for sure. The California Air Resorces Board needs to get a backbone. Tom Hanks, Mel Gibson and other famous people who were fortunate enough to be able to lease this wonderful automobile will gladly testify what a great car it was. If GM had sold any instead of destroying them all as quickly as possible, there would have been many more enthusiastic voices to be heard. But that is why they took them all back and would not let anyone buy them. What a waste. They could have sold these all over the world. This is probably the biggest blunder GM has ever made. | |
| 2,616 | 10:01 pm PDT, Jul 28 | Mr. | David Palmer-May | Pennsylvania | United States | Please sell the EV1 cars because it will help the environment and help stop our dependence on foreign oil which is ruining this country and it's politics. The oil companies are controlling this country and your company, but you can break the mold and go against them and get the support of the people instead. Fight for your rights and fight for ours please deliver and sell us the EV1 cars, and on top of that you will make a great profit from the selling of them. |
| 2,614 | 8:39 pm PDT, Jul 22 | Ronnie Fannin | Kentucky | United States | We are slipping into a recession caused by the government's failure to check the massive power obtained by the oil companies at the peoples reliance on oil to sustain their everyday life. It needs to be stopped now. We need clean air transportation and we need big oil men out of powerful seats in our nations leadership. | |
| 2,613 | 6:59 am PDT, Jul 21 | Mr. | Anonymous | Ohio | United States | I truly believe we need to be free of foreign oil. |
| 2,612 | 6:53 pm PDT, Jul 20 | Ms. | Pam Denman | Kansas | United States | These cars are a step in the right direction. Get them on the roads now! |
| 2,611 | 1:31 pm PDT, Jul 20 | Mr. | Robert Hodsdon | Florida | United States | |
| 2,610 | 2:20 pm PDT, Jul 19 | Melissa Pahl | Ohio | United States | With so many car plants closing down, wouldn't making more electric cars help the economy? This seems like an obvious "yes" to me. Let's get back to the days when we buy our own products and depend less on other countries!!! | |
| 2,609 | 12:24 pm PDT, Jul 19 | Mr. | Greg Tripodes | Tennessee | United States | I bet you still wish you had the EV1 in production with the gas prices at 4.50 a gallon. |
| 2,608 | 9:59 am PDT, Jul 18 | Ben Salisbury | Washington | United States | Hey GM. I'm not EVER going to buy one more of your cars(New OR USED) until 2/3 of the available vehicles are Plug in Hybrids or EVs. | |
| 2,607 | 5:59 pm PDT, Jul 16 | Lynsey Weber | Wisconsin | United States | i wish these would have been available for awhile now | |
| 2,606 | 11:24 am PDT, Jul 16 | Mr. | Michael A. Davis | Ohio | United States | If the Ev1 was still on the road, I have no doubts that at least 1/12th the population of the United states would be driving them now. |
| 2,605 | 11:19 pm PDT, Jul 10 | Mr. | Randy Walters | Ohio | United States | electric vehicles are a win win situation. Help the environment and stop sponsoring terrorism at the same time. |
| 2,604 | 10:00 am PDT, Jul 9 | Anonymous | Canada | |||
| 2,603 | 2:24 pm PDT, Jul 8 | Robert Lalonde | California | United States | ||
| 2,602 | 6:01 am PDT, Jul 8 | Cynthia Doerksen | Canada | The times are changing GM and if you don't want to go the way of the dinosaur, you will have to keep up with new demand. Open market competition is the American way. Supply and demand. There is a demand and money to be made. All you have to do is supply the product. | ||
| 2,601 | 5:24 am PDT, Jul 8 | Anonymous | Canada |
GM: Sell Us Your EV1 Electric Cars!
Forced by a clean-air mandate, General Motors built 1500 EV1 highway-capable electric vehicles (EVs) from 1996-1999.
The EV1 is fast, safe and well-equipped, having been designed from the ground up as an EV; drivers love the car. GM test-marketed only to affluent consumers in southern California, available only by lease.
Promotion for the EV1 was limited and omitted offers for sale.
The EV1 was withdrawn from production after the California zero-emission vehicle mandate was relaxed, the company arguing that there is no demand for EV1s, in spite of the thousands on waiting lists for the car. There are currently only about 5000 EVs of all makes in the United States.
A study, The Current and Future Market for Electric Vehicles, was done by the experienced automotive market research company, the Dohring Company, for the Green Car Institute. The expected sales of EVs in the US would start at 12,000 to 24,000 a year and expand toward 180,000 to 270,000 sales yearly in five years. Conclusion: “The market for EVs exists. It is simply awaiting the right products, properly marketed to meet consumer needs, to blossom.”
http://www.greencar.com/gci/gcimarketing.pdf
93% of Americans polled recently support clean-air transportation. Most would even pay more for it.
GM is currently suing the California Air Resources Board in an attempt to evade all zero-emission vehicle requirements. GM is ignoring a profitable market at the behest of the oil industry.
"Taken for a Ride", by Jack Doyle, is a comprehensive study of automakers' history of resistance to all safety and fuel-efficiency improvements.
We, the undersigned, in support of energy independence and clean air, ask that GM begin selling electric vehicles to the American public.
The EV1 is fast, safe and well-equipped, having been designed from the ground up as an EV; drivers love the car. GM test-marketed only to affluent consumers in southern California, available only by lease.
Promotion for the EV1 was limited and omitted offers for sale.
The EV1 was withdrawn from production after the California zero-emission vehicle mandate was relaxed, the company arguing that there is no demand for EV1s, in spite of the thousands on waiting lists for the car. There are currently only about 5000 EVs of all makes in the United States.
A study, The Current and Future Market for Electric Vehicles, was done by the experienced automotive market research company, the Dohring Company, for the Green Car Institute. The expected sales of EVs in the US would start at 12,000 to 24,000 a year and expand toward 180,000 to 270,000 sales yearly in five years. Conclusion: “The market for EVs exists. It is simply awaiting the right products, properly marketed to meet consumer needs, to blossom.”
http://www.greencar.com/gci/gcimarketing.pdf
93% of Americans polled recently support clean-air transportation. Most would even pay more for it.
GM is currently suing the California Air Resources Board in an attempt to evade all zero-emission vehicle requirements. GM is ignoring a profitable market at the behest of the oil industry.
"Taken for a Ride", by Jack Doyle, is a comprehensive study of automakers' history of resistance to all safety and fuel-efficiency improvements.
We, the undersigned, in support of energy independence and clean air, ask that GM begin selling electric vehicles to the American public.
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