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The thought came up while reading this ancient blog post about the development of the GM EV1, the pioneering electric car that GM leased but never sold. The post is a response to the rather bitter Who Killed The Electric Car? documentary, but draws most of its information from the earlier history The Car That Could, published in 1996. It explains how GM would have lost money on every EV1 it sold, if it sold them for what people were happy to pay: In 2011 a video entitled Who Killed the Electric Car? was published. It is a very effective bit of propaganda but quite misleading. The key issue...

To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. For years now, car companies have been making electric cars but not a profit off of them. The price of developing an EV doesn’t match up with the price people are willing to pay for them, and we often see these cars subsidised by both governments and manufacturers themselves. With this in mind, I adore the $US435,000 ($567,762) Mercedes-Benz SL...