Ironically, it was California that indirectly helped General Motors usher in a new era in automaking in the mid-1990s when CARB, the California Air Resources Board, began to establish state targets for emission levels (a state right upheld by the Supreme Court
in a 2007 ruling). The General Motors electric car, the EV1, also became very popular in California. However, the government gradually moved away from the terms set by the first piece of legislation in its Zero-Emissions Vehicle Program
in 1990, and GM ultimately scrapped the EV1. General Motors was condemned for that move in the documentary “Who Killed the Electric Car?
”, but is now working on a 2.0 version, the Chevy Volt. Anticipation is building at GM-Volt.com, a blog allegedly unaffiliated with General Motors, which has articles and multimedia about the car, its technology and the philosophy behind the vehicle.