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GM built an electric S-10 pickup in 1997-98 and gave it front-wheel drive, the same powertrain layout as the EV1 — nothing like the rear-drive gas truck it was based on.
When the all-new Silverado arrived for 1999, GM kept building the old heavy-duty GMT400 trucks alongside it for two more years before the GMT800 HD finally replaced them in 2001.
Citroën was quietly testing an electric C15 van back in 1987, two years of real-world trials in La Rochelle and Brussels, decades before an electric commercial van was a normal thing to buy.
The NS-generation Grand Caravan was the first minivan offered with dual power sliding doors, added for the 1996 model year.
In the 2009 Cash for Clunkers program, the four-wheel-drive version was the most traded-in vehicle of all, and the two-wheel-drive version came fourth.
The electric Ranger EV was the only rear-wheel-drive, American-built Ford ever fitted with a de Dion rear suspension — a race-car trick hiding under a work truck.
GM crushed almost every EV1 it ever built. Francis Ford Coppola later claimed on TV that his had quietly survived — making it, by some accounts, the only one left in private hands.
This Sierra kept rolling off the line for a full extra year after its replacement arrived - badged "Classic" in 2007 just to tell the two generations apart on dealer lots.
The Gillig Low Floor grew from the H2000LF airport shuttle built for Hertz, whose first buses entered production in 1996.
The EV Plus used a nickel-metal hydride battery and was never sold, only leased, to consumers.
Its electric MiEV version outlived the i-MiEV whose drivetrain it borrowed, and Japan Post ordered 1,200 of them in 2019.
The New Flyer D40LF was the first low-floor bus sold in the U.S. and Canadian markets.
Chicago's 1998 order was Nova Bus's first major US win, with more than 400 LFS buses delivered.
In 1998 the Orion VI became the first North American transit bus offered with a hybrid powertrain as a regular production option.
The 1996 Voyager was the first minivan ever built with a sliding door on the driver's side, not just the curb side.
From 1997 this Coaster was offered as a series hybrid: its 1.5-litre engine only generated electricity, and an electric motor drove the bus.
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VerifiedFIRST · WORLDWIDEFIRST PRINTONLY ONE IN VANCOUVERGM built an electric S-10 pickup in 1997-98 and gave it front-wheel drive, the same powertrain layout as the EV1 — nothing like the rear-drive gas truck it was based on.
