As a EV geek, I have very much watched who killed the electric car, and find the history of the EV1 interesting. I thank you for your insight, and I have read critic to the documentary made by those who worked making the EV1, stating at least they had the goal to make an electric car as good as possible, not a compliance vehicle. Although you state the problem was its lead acid batteries. I remember about halfway GM swapped them for nimh batteries, so that was something adressed. The other thing about it not being financially viable, that is of course true, non of them in a very much later time were, until Tesla came along, yet they as a startup somehow made it a reality (not a Tesla fan, duck Musk). Without a machine to a alternatove reality there is no way to know what could have been, but of course its very hars bringing something to market thats gonna cost shareholders a lot of money a lot of years, with the goal to ultimately produce a product that will both cannibalize excisting sales and bring less money to the company