T-Zero? No, I'm talking about the EV1. This is General Motors attempt at bringing electric cars mainstream. Is that from the 60s? Was that in the 1960s? No, no, this came out early 2000 period, late 1990s. This was a Rick Wagner, who was the GM CEO at the time. It unveiled the concept of the LA Auto Show and got really huge kind of excitement among California regulators who were very concerned about emissions at the time. And this was the attempt to kind of put the toe in the water for electric cars. And people that got the EV1 loved it. They were early adopters. They could see the future. The interior looks like something out of RoboCop or like Demolition Man. Exactly. It's as if designers got into a room and said, what does the future look like? And you're just like right out of a science fiction movie. And I've been in it. I've ridden around GM's Warren Campus on it. It's like a piece of history. But at the time, it was just a little too ahead of its day. And GM wasn't making money (12/40)
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