What killed the EV1?

So what killed the EV1? One of the first electrically powered cars, the EV1 was popular in Southern California, so much so that when their EV1s were taken away, many former owners tracked them down and found them crushed in junk yards. Many consumers were outraged and many drew the implication that big oil companies pressured the car companies into withdrawing their electric vehicles.
Car companies are massive. They pull just as much weight as oil companies. There is no reason that a car company should be intimidated by big oil. There is really nothing that oil can do to car companies, anyway. Furthermore, it is in the car companies’s best interest to develop a greener, more sustainable car. So why was the EV1 scrapped?
Perhaps the car was scrapped because it was ahead of its time. There is no infrastructure to support it, after all. In order to fully support electric cars, most parking lots would have to be torn up, electric grids placed down, and the lots repaved. Machines to collect payment would be installed, because electricity certainly isn’t free. Furthermore, the entire electric grid would have to be revamped to support a mass number of cars. Yet, this cannot be the reason the cars were scrapped, because car companies were not planning on a massive market penetration. Their main cars were still gas burning.
Perhaps the car was scrapped because it was quite an unfinished product. After all, the battery could last for about 70 miles at best. They were considered unreliable. And after the disaster with ethanol (which, by the way, the government funded and lost massive amounts of taxpayer money on), car and fuel companies were gunshy and prefer to do more product testing and refining. So maybe the car companies just want to test electric cars more before allowing them to be on the market. But then again, the people were happy with their cars and did not seem to mind that they could only travel 60 miles at a time.
There were a lot of issues with the EV1, but it doesn’t make any sense for the car companies to destroy existing cars. Except for that pesky law. A government law requires companies to provide service for 15 years after sell date on cars. And car companies do not want to spend the money to provide it. Here is a clear example of how excessive government laws infringe upon the lives of citizens. Otherwise, there would be no reason that the car companies would spend money to round up all of their existing vehicles. Furthermore, precedents have been set allowing ridiculous law suits to be pressed upon companies who allow imperfected products on the market. While a customer may have bought an EV1 with the understanding that they could not travel more than 60 miles at a time, if a customer were to be stranded and irritated, they might decide to sue the car company. And would inevitably win. Thus, car companies must take extreme measures, such as the destruction of cars, in order to protect themselves from both the government, and consumers.