It’s not an anniversary General Motors necessarily wants to celebrate but, 20 years ago, it officially canned its first electric car program, and began recalling the 1100-or-so GM EV1 coupes it had built.

They were sent to the crusher, a melancholy end to a program that started with a revolutionary one-off “concept car” called Impact in 1990, and led to the first production GM EV1s rolling off the line in 1996.