Clean Car Research Never Reaches Production  GM's Impact
prototype vehicle later to be produced as the EV1  It seems that
every 10 years or so US automakers take a bunch of money from
the Federal Government and sometimes state and local governments
in developing one or two high mileage demonstration vehicles. I
believe this is to assure government that it is capable of
producing a vehicle that truly saves on gasoline. The automakers
meet the objectives of the contract; they roll out one or two
vehicles, but then they do nothing else. They show the world
that the US auto industry can make production vehicles that get
80+ miles to the gallon and then arrogantly refuse to produce
them after having soaked up all of the government research
dollars.  Ad published by GM introducing a series hybrid the
Stirlec1  In 1969 GM introduced to the world through its Opel
division the Stirlec1, an experimental prototype conversion of
its most popular European vehicle. It was equipped with a
Stirling engine and an electric dri