Ever for the reason that lost 12 months of 2020, life seems to have entered warp speed, so that you’d be forgiven in the event you can’t recall the not-so-distant past when automakers were banding together and vowing to end development of internal combustion engines and concentrate on a full EV future. That did actually occur, though, with automakers from Alfa Romeo to Volkswagen and almost everyone in between making some form of pledge to attenuate ICE production and maximize EV production. More recently, buyer behavior has shifted more toward hybrids, causing these automakers to backtrack on their pledges and reevaluate their entire future.
When EVs were still recent and rare, many funky little electrified cars trickled their way into the US, and seemingly just as quickly disappeared. From the earliest and arguably most radical attempts within the late ’90s to some more moderen attempts at producing the right EV for the American masses, we’ve seen some downright lovable little machines fade into the annals of history. It is a list of a few of my personal favorite early attempts at electric cars which have seemingly disappeared from American roads.
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