> As GM’s team put it: “EV1 set in motion everything we’re doing in electric right now”

Sounds line GM is taking credit for EV industry’s success after they recalled and sent to the crusher the very car model these people are trying to restore.

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ezfe 2 hours ago | parent [-]

They’re taking credit for their own success? I don’t know how you can construe that to be the industry overall.

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conception 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You mean Toyota and Tesla’s success? Let’s be real - the Prius and then Model S kickstarted the EV revolution.

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mlhpdx an hour ago | parent | next [-]

If you read the history you’ll see the appropriate word is “restarted” the EV revolution. It was on and off again in a slow march to the point that allowed Tesla to exist. I’m not diminishing the role Tesla played, but it has to be taken in context. They stood on shoulders.

	▲	therealpygon an hour ago \| parent [-]
		An over 125 year, often abandoned, stuttering march filled with stories of invisible battles by the entrenched to keep the status quo.

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therealpygon an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Do you suggest we ignore or include in this history the original contributions of the first electric cars from all the way back in the single digits of the 1900s?

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bluGill an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Those were important too, but the ev1 started that modern ev.

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hamdingers 34 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's not a success if you quit the race at the finish line, even if you were in the lead.

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rdtsc an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Right before that in the paragraph:

> The EV1 introduced technologies that remain foundational to modern EVs