http://www.sonyclassics.com/whokilledtheelectriccar/

The director was on the Daily Show the other day. Really interesting stuff. Basically, he was leased, from the state of California, an electric car. One day they took all the electric cars back and they are in a junk yard now. He made a documentary about it (see above link)

The link is really interesting. Anyone see the documentary?

Here's a discussion on this topic.

http://www.greenhybrid.com/discuss/w...-car.8174.html

Thanks for the link! I could not believe that it had not already been posted here! Did not look carefully enough

I found the movie interesting. I am an avid electric/hybrid supporter but I found one problem with the movie. While I don't doubt GM killed the car under suspisious pretense, it is easy to figure out why they crunched all the existing cars- they didn't want to keep dealers stocked with replacement parts. That demystifies some of the movie. They should have concentrated on GM's refusal to promote it rather than WHY ARE THEY SHREADING THESE PERFECTLY NEW CARS?????

Interesting. it is like the lack of advertising of the Insight, which has been around for 7+ years. Honda makes little to no money on the Insight.

I did have a friend who was an avid Minicooper driver. She had to give it up because she is single, one car, long commute, and everytime something went wrong with it, it took weeks to order new parts. She just could not do that every time. I understand that aspect of the electric car. (but come on, we have Fedex overnight shipping!! lol)

http://www.greenhybrid.com/discuss/w...-car.8174.html



There are several topics on this. In the Journalism and the media forum, where this belonged.

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