GMC’s first electric truck. Pre-Tesla

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A simple truck!
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"Economical, Reliable".

They knew. If only they'd focused on batteries rather than engines.
 


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Man, that 'thedrive' article is written by an author who has 'intentionally misunderstanding' as a life choice.

Since when is saying 'we would choose a different product later if this product doesn't sell' the same as 'not making the product they promised'?

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The Voltec System: Energy Storage and Electric Propulsion
Chapter · January 2014
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-59513-3.00008-X
By Ulrich Ebe
https://www.researchgate.net/profil...tric-Propulsion.pdf?origin=publication_detail

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2. A Brief History of Electric Vehicles
In the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries, EVs (see Figure 8.1) played a significant role in the emerging automotive market. The first vehicle that set a speed record exceeding 100 km/h was the “La Jamais Contente,” an EV driven by Camille Jenatzy, a Belgian race driver and vehicle constructor. At the time, Oldsmobile, since 1908 part of General Motors, also manufactured EVs. EVs were easier to start and more comfortable, therefore being the early luxury vehicles: inter alia, Thomas A. Edison and Clara Ford owned EVs. In 1911,

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In the 1930s, the last American company building electric road vehicles stopped production. It took until 1964 when General Motors Research & Development integrated a silver—zinc battery originating from the US space program and electric motors in a Chevy Corvair-based EV, the Electrovair (see Figure 8.2(a)).


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History Alley: Some Of The First Oldsmobile Cars Were Electric
by Sean Szymkowski
Jul 30, 2018
https://gmauthority.com/blog/2018/07/history-alley-some-of-the-first-oldsmobile-cars-were-electric/


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Early Oldsmobile Electrics
https://www.outrightolds.com/index.php/spotlight-on/early-olds-electrics


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The discovery of crude oil and the technology to crack it and make cheap fuel and other chemicals from it killed the EV back in the day.
A huge part of the country was not electrified until TVA came about and without a charging infrastructure EV's were limited to where charging was available.
Big oil also killed mass transit and the passenger railroad in the US.
I remember when you could still ride the bus in our small town and the passenger trains still ran.
Having a car meant not being dependent on a set schedule and most people that could afford one (which thanks to financing and low prices meant just about everyone) owned one.
 


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Man, that 'thedrive' article is written by an author who has 'intentionally misunderstanding' as a life choice.
Also, this gem:

To the executives that did the deed, it would be almost unimaginable that GMC would return to electric drive 104 years later with the GMC Hummer EV, and that it'd face the opposite conundrum: It can hardly keep up with demand.
Exactly how many Hummers has GM pre-sold?

It's ironic the author chooses that EV of all of them to compare to these early work-horses when the Hummer is easily the least practical electric truck on the market.
 
 




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