Where can i buy an electric car, with out having to return it?

Question

As it happened before. . . people did have to return the electric cars in order to be destroyed. . . and i want to keep it . . .so. . . .can you help me.. . . .and. . please. . .don't tell the F.B.I.

Answer 1

what does the FBI have to do with it.  The GM EV1 was leased with the peoples FULL UNDERSTANDING that the cars would be returned.  If you want to steal any car after the lease is up and then transport it across a state line, then yes the FBI will hunt you down likr the thief you are.

If you are an adult, you would understand this.

Answer 2

OK you should really know the backstory on the whole "Lease only" thing from the 1990's round of electric cars.

General Motors built the EV1, which was a truly new design of automobile.  A composite-frame chassis intended to be reused with many experimental powertrains, only one of which was electric.  Every part was unique, nothing in common with any other GM car.  All hand-built, like the Tesla. They were experimental and they wanted to keep them close for liability reasons, and because they wanted to later put different experimental powertrains in the chassis.  

Because of the EV1, California decided to force all automakers to make electric cars.  The other automakers couldn't afford to design a whole new car like GM did - so they just made electric versions of their regular cars.  They had NO idea how to market these.  So they just copied what GM was doing. GM did lease-only, so they did too.

Another thing the leasing did was make the cars affordable.   The real cost of an EV1 was $100,000 a car - very similar to the Tesla, in fact.  By doing a lease, GM could play funny games with the lease pricing so people could get the car for $349/month.

Nobody likes to be forced to do anything.  GM didn't like to be forced to sell electric cars, so they fought tooth and nail to get out of the obligation.  When they finally did, they crushed the EV1s - partly as a Mafia-style message to California legislators "Don't tell us what to do".

The other automakers copied GM and crushed theirs too.

GM now thinks crushing them was a serious mistake.  The chassis were intended to be reused for other experimental designs, such as th Chevy Volt.  Whoops.  

However they didn't SELL the EV1, because there were no parts for it anywhere in the universe.  You couldn't go down to Kragen or Murray's and get brake pads for an EV1.  GM couldn't allow a situation where owners were driving cars with no brakes because they couldn't get parts for instance, which is unfortunately what people would have done.  

The other automakers had the same problem to some extent.  The Honda EV Plus was quite different from other Hondas.  The Ford Ranger EV had a different rear suspension.  Some Ford Rangers were saved but there has since been a real scramble for parts. Many Toyota RAV4-EVs were saved, but those cars are fairly similar to regular RAV4's.

These are all 1990's electric cars. Because of the crushing cars thing, I consider it unlikely any automakers will do the "lease only" thing again.

As for the FBI, I guarantee you the FBI does not care if you steal a car, even an experimental car, unless the car is powered by a nuclear reactor :)  There was some "lease return resistance" in the electric car programs, and while it was technically car theft, it was also civil disobedience, and not the only civil disobedience.  Baywatch hottie Alexandra Paul got arrested for blocking trucks that were carting off EVs for crushing.

Answer 3

There are lots of companies that are currently selling EVs or will be selling them in the near future.  See link below.

Answer 4

go to EV canada's site and look at what is available and going to be available. companies like Subaru, Mitzubishi, will be bringing electrics to the market.