Free EV's for a Year | Green Energy News

August 11, 2002 – Vol.7 No.20

FREE EV’S FOR A YEAR.

General Motors has announced it will give thousands of golf-carts-converted-to-neighborhood-electric-vehicles during the next three years to businesses and organizations mostly in California, but also in New York, Vermont and Massachusetts. After one year, those receiving the NEV’s will have to buy them or return them to the General. Those returned will be converted back to golf carts and sold on the used golf cart market.

General Motors is launching this program as a way to collect Zero Emission Vehicle credits in California. Although limited to roads with speed limits under 35 miles per hour, the 25 mile per hour NEV’s are eligible for the credit.

General Motors said that California will not give up on its quest for a fleet of Zero Emission Vehicles, so the company might as well be collecting the credits. The more credits it earns now, the more conventional vehicles it can sell in the state at a later date.

The company is putting its hopes on fuel cell vehicles, which it now says it could have on the road in vast numbers before 2020.