They were able to take them back because the people never owned it. Love it.
It's a good thing we're starting to ealize what gasoline is doing to the world's atmosphere.I have one of the original S-10 electric made by GM. Yet, nothing could stop the progress. Is it part of an attempt to hush hush this story?This movie fails to mention that GM sold the patent for the EV1 battery to another company. The Who Killed the Electric Car movie gave a lot of reasons for why the car never became popular and why it was discontinued, but it seems to me that besides the very few enthusiasts who wanted to have one, the public was not ready for a sticker shock of a GM EV1 small 2-seater car. If they had a small tank like mine, that would be 325 miles to the gallon. Good job!It don't matter to me.
When used in areas with almost any other energy source (about half the US at this time), they may make a significant difference.Wrong, I am fairly wealthy and I struggled to build everything I have myself with no help from anyone... certainly not my loser parents...Being prepared for the worst is how I protect my family and keep my fortune.Hehe, yes, expecting the worst makes it so you won't ever be disappointed, doesn't it?
So on a full tank of gas I would be lucky to get 450 miles per tank.
Seems like a catch-22.Electricity often comes from coal, an energy source that is both a regional air pollutant and a contributor to global warming...Why, then, is the electric car depicted as some environmentally-friendly miracle? I have one of the 50 that sold to Government agencies.Cbostic31...did you not see the end of the documentary? I am sure, “Tesla” will kill the electric cars idea third time, if they will continue to make cars what after a sale is still controlled by the company. With Martin Sheen, Tom Hanks, Mel Gibson, Reverend Gadget. They have an interchangable ev battery that can go 300+ miles. Estimates are that if that technology had been released instead of the petrol based engine (since fuel efficiency with a water based engine does not benefit anyone's bottom line) mileage would be close to 100 to over 3,000 mpg of water OR GREATER. Who Killed The Electric Car? This site requires flash 7 or later. The boxy, small EV shown being crushed in the movie was the Honda EV-Plus. $45,138 With an electric car, you still need to plug it in so some oil, coal, natural gas, etc is being burned somewhere to gain that charge.Ha ha ha ha this is the evil oil companies and it seems that you have discovered our evil plot to destroy the world while we rich people go and live in Atlantis and our flying castles in the Sky (thats my summer home)Going to drive the new Nissan Leaf tomorrow! Did TDF get threatened with something by someone? Of course, the question would now be... lithium. He may have a clearly defined axe to grind but, in this war-ravaged and environmentally distressed day and age, Paine’s passion is worth attending to.Filmmaker Chris Payne explores the many factors that played into the ultimate failure of the electric car to catch on with consumers, even as gas prices began to skyrocket, in a thoughtful meditation on the increasingly important role that renewable energy plays in modern society. What people have to realize is technology is going forward no matter what. We're going to have to make the switch eventually. And Atlantis is basically where they live. Directed by Chris Paine. No need to waste time endlessly browsing—here's the entire lineup of new movies and TV shows streaming on Netflix this month. Though the oil industry is far more pollutant as lithium batteries have a far greater life span than a tank of gas so when you put it in perspective the pollution is much less 'horrific'.Funny how, when technological advances knock on our doors, there's always people 'concerned' with people losing jobs. The buyer is not the owner of the car he/she bought.
The director of Who Killed the Electric Car? Where are you gonna put that, again?
A documentary that investigates the birth and death of the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable living in the future. Also the video may of said it but I forget. For a while, you were able to lease them through EV Rentals (at several Budget Rent a Car locations). Now the owner of the “Tesla” car can not resell his own car. It shows how the U.S. was ignorant of hybrids and electrics back then. The average car get perhaps 25 mpg. For an enhanced browsing experience, get the IMDb app on your smartphone or tablet.
Might as well be sooner rather than later.I have seen this doc and I must take "The Devil's Advocate's" position, because I love the Devil...Anyways, as they state in the doc, electric cars are easy to maintain and have fewer moving parts, without the oil process...How many car mechanics would they put out of business? It's a free compilation of all documentaries posted each week, straight to your inbox.
Of these the 800 cars were leased out and 450 of the S-10 were leased out. How many children would go hungry because Daddy, who was only trained in auto-mechanics and was able to make 15 bucks an hour "pulling tranies" at a Jiffy Lube and using GM parts, would now have to work at a Wall-mart for 7.50 an hour?The man has a skill, that is now useless, and his kids go hungry, and you all call that progress?Maybe, GM was trying to keep those men and womaen employed so that they could feed their kids and, yes, make money for themselves, too? I have one of those.