Movie Trailer: Who Killed the Electric Car?
A great film about another sorry episode in the history of America's automobile and energy industry. Set as a "Who-Done-It", the film chronicles how short sighted automakers (especially GM) develop great electric cars in response to the California ZEV mandate only to do everything in their power - from suing the state, making ridiculous ads, creating a red-tape filled lease application process - to kill them. Consumers buy bigger and bigger vehicles (whether they need them or not). Government officials and staffers bow to the pressure of intense auto industry and oil company lobbying, and conflicts of interest. The sad fate of most of the EVs produced during the late '90s to 2002 is revealed.GM, especially, comes off as incredibly vindictive. What automaker ever tracked down every car of any model and crushed them (not the Corvair, Edsel, etc.)? Even after loyal drivers pleaded to keep them, offering to buy the last remaining EV1s with junk titles at lease buyout prices, GM went out of its way to ensure that the EV1 was history.
The passion of GM's EV specialist Chelsea Sexton for the EV1 makes her the star of the movie. One can only imagine what the GM engineers who designed the EV1 felt when their babies were being crushed.
Congress is dependent on BIG industry for mega millions. Senators and representatives line up for campaign bribes and under the table payola. We fought the Revolutionary War because the British Parliament was hopelessly corrupt. Now we are being forced to bear the burden of corrupt industries who bribe our elected representatives in DC.
No more bailouts !
Aluminum Chassis built to aerospace tolerances but was poor in crash ratings.
If someone started tinkering with the wiring you could literally get hurt.
If was in a position of power with GM I'd crush them as well, just like they do with proof of concept and prototypes.
I have seen Vettes and Vipers on trailers (Proto's) running to get the fuel out of them as they take them to a non-descript junk yard in Toledo for Crushing.... Sad site....