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The New Marketing Focus of General Motors

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Who Killed the Electric Car

Who Killed the Electric Car

In 1996, electric cars began to appear on roads all over California. They were quiet and fast, produced no exhaust and ran without gasoline. Ten years later, these futuristic cars were almost entirely gone. What happened? Why should we be haunted by the ghost of the electric car?

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5 Stars Forgotten by the News Media???
It’s amazing, there were good working American-made electric cars over a decade ago. I remember when they came out, I was giving them a few years before I got one–when suddenly, they were pulled out of the market.

This documentary tells why. Owners of these cars were happy with them, they looked good (blended well with other cars, can’t even tell them apart).

These days though, when the news media talks about electric cars as cars of the future that may not work–I always wonder–haven’t they done their homework? We already had electric cars and they were great!

5 Stars I love this movie
What an incredible story. Everyone loves the car, so Detroit kills it!? Makes you wonder why the car companies are having trouble today.

5 Stars How Big Oil obliges us to continue contaminating the environment
In 1990, the state of California obliged through the Zero Emission Vehicle mandate car manufacturers turning a minimum part of their sales to electric. General Motors launched their EV-1 to the market in 1996, and a total of 800 vehicles ran the streets of California. But at the same time, GM lobbied against this mandate, and they won, in 2003, when this mandate was killed. Immediately afterwards, all those leased electric vehicles were withdrawn. Even worse : they were all destroyed, shredded to thousands of pieces, as if to eliminate all physical evidence this car ever even really existed…

Bush then gave a tax cut of 100.000 USD to anyone buying a Hummer, in order to “reactivate the economy”. You have to consider that the Hummer is a car with an efficiency far below the first commercial vehicle ever built, the T Ford. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, Bush also went to war to restore the oil supply by Iraq. We must always bear in mind the words of Franklin D. Roosevelt: “The trouble with this country is that you can’t win an election without the oil bloc, and you can’t govern with it.” So, the actual murderer of the electric vehicle is really Big Oil.

Although GM eventually built this car, a real beauty, silent, fast, and called by one of the drivers in this documentary “sexy”, they weren’t too fond of it either, since there’s virtually no service to be done. No spare parts can be sold : no oil filters, no gasoline filters, no air filters, no motor parts, no clutch parts, no tailpipe parts, etc. Even the brakes had never to be serviced on the EV-1 ! When braking, the power was regenerated and used to charge the batteries, so virtually no wear happened.

Happily, oil prices have gone wild in recent years, and other car manufacturers began producing prototypes of electric vehicles. Next year, 2010, will have a lot of electric vehicles becoming commercially available, from a wide range of manufacturers. So far, from what I’ve seen, Fiat seems to have the most interesting proposal, with the Phylla, an electric car with an autonomy of 140 to 220 km, depending on the batteries you buy it with. The most wonderful fact is that you even don’t have to plug it in : it recharges with solar panels incorporated in the roof and the doors !

5 Stars Gets you thinking.
This DVD will get you thinking. Why destroy all the cars? Who was behind it? Why get rid of the electric car program all together? This DVD will make you question allot of things and sheds light on things that were brushed under the table. This is a must see DVD!!!!

5 Stars Excellent film
This documentary cuts right to the heart of the scandal around the stifling of alternatives to the polluting oil-based car industry, and the fact that it is kept on a personal level and follows the fight the owners of the electric cars put up to save them makes it lively and interesting as well as informative

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