Remember the movie Who Killed The Electric Car? (Trailer below the fold.) We thought all the GM EV1s were shredded and gone! But apparently in Canada you could actually buy, not lease, an EV1, and one in British Columbia just sold for $465,000; asking price started at $75,000.
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THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE.
NARRATOR: 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?
WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR?
WALLY E. RIPPEL, RESEARCH ENGINER, AEROVIRONMENT: The exciting thing about this is the cost of operating the car is the same as if you were driving a typical gasoline car, but the gasoline only costs 60 cents a gallon.
ALEXANDRA PAUL, EV DRIVER: I plug it in at night, and when I need to drive it, I unplug, drive it away.
TOM HANKS: Believe it or not, that sucker goes. That thing will take you so fast, you can get a ticket.
[ -- ]: Wow, I didn’t know this existed. H-how come I don’t know about this? Have you seen this on TV?
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[ -- ] People who control the marketplace today, the oil companies, have a strong incentive to discourage alternatives.
Newspaper: White House Joins Fight Against Electric Cars
Vice President Dick Cheney, Former CEO, Halliburton (next to George Bush)
Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, Former member, Chevron Board of Directors (in front of George Bush)
RALPH NADER, CONSUMER ADVOCATE: They make too much money with their technological stagnation and the internal combustion engine.
S. DAVID FREEMAN, FORMER ENERGY ADVISOR TO JIMMY CARTER (1977): For the last 15 years they’ve been telling us the fuel cells are 10-15 years off.
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WALLY E. RIPPEL, RESEARCH ENGINER, AEROVIRONMENT: There’s still roughly a trillion barrels worth of oil in the earth’s crust. That’s 100 trillion dollars of business yet to be done.
TOM EVERHART, PH.D., FORMER GM BOARD MEMBER (1989-2002): General Motors made a commitment to the Hummer because they could see the Hummer would make them money.
ED BEGLEY, JR: The electric vehicle is not for everybody. It can only meet the needs of 90% of the population.
"A quietly shocking indictment of our gas-guzzling auto companies and the petro-politicians who love them." – Karen Durbin, ELLE MAGAZINE.
S. DAVID FREEMAN: We’re up against the automobile industry, the oil industry, it’s David versus Goliath.
[---]: Who killed the electric car?
WALLY E. RIPPEL: Lack of corporate wisdom.
[---]: In my opinion, it’s Big Oil.
S. DAVID FREEMAN: The murder was committed by the General Motors Company.
HUELL HOWSER: What’s interesting, you’re going to be shredding some new cars. Why are you shredding them up?
AUTO SHREDDER: A little bit of a mystery really.
HUELL HOWSER: Well that seems like a shame.
WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR?
[--]: I think it will go down as one of the biggest blunders in the history of the automotive industry.
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