But the EV1 was controversial ... advocate Chris Paine told NPR in a 2006 interview about his documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? "The sight of seeing them destroyed before most people ...

Many Americans never knew the EV1 existed — and the fight to keep it alive ended with GM crushing nearly all the cars into ...

The electric car may have been infamously "killed" later on, but in the '90s, the EV1 set the world onto the path we're on ...