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Old 12-29-2022, 01:04 PM
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Originally Posted by scuncio View Post
Right, Martin Eberhard’s company.
That's correct. The founders of TESLA were die hard EV-1 loyalists who petitioned GM to keep the car alive or at least allow then to keep the car but GM was still liability shy so they forced the owners to give them back under the provisions of the lease arrangement.

https://www.hagerty.com/media/car-pr...aunched-tesla/


The founders of TESLA even organized the mock Funeral for EV-1 as well and begged GM to keep it.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scien...v-1-118595941/
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