# Who Killed the Electric Car? **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [December 18, 2006, 7:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-killed-the-electric-car/186890 "2006-12-18T07:32:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![ShalerPunk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/shalerpunk/32/5976_2.png) [@ShalerPunk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ShalerPunk)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 11:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-killed-the-electric-car/186890/5 "2006-12-19T11:55:21Z")
> [@SOLD](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sold/26472/7): > > They were highly unprofitable the people who possessed them seemed pretty willing to pay whatever they could to keep them. > [@SOLD](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sold/26472/7): > > low production they had a “buyer” for every car produced. > [@SOLD](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sold/26472/7): > > and horrible range. No one in my immediate family (myself excluded) ever drives farther than Cranberry. When they go on vacation, they either fly or rent a conversion van. My mom’s Elantra, my step-dad’s Malibu, and my grandmother’s Accent could all easily be replaced by EVs. > [@SOLD](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sold/26472/7): > > They didn’t want another Corvair media nightmare, so they rounded them up, and crushed them. The tech wasn’t ready for widespread use, and nobody wanted to be the first one to get burned. It makes for great conspiracy theory shit though. pull that shit out of your ass, or are you moonlighting as GM’s PR guy? the cars were on the road for ten years and i never saw negative media coverage on them. in fact, as long as we keep fucking up iraq, the media has a “gloom and doom” goldmine. what negative could the media report on? the car performed as it was meant to. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-killed-the-electric-car/186890)._