Who Killed the Electric Car?: Amazon.de: DVD & Blu-ray

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Thomas Linder

Ein MUSS...

Rezension aus Deutschland vom 29. März 2011

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Es ist schon erschreckend zu sehen wie wir von Politik, Wirtschaft, Interessenverbänden regelrecht zum Narren gehalten werden. Mir persönlich war gar nicht bekannt wie weit wir auf dem Gebiet der Electric Cars schon vorangeschritten waren. So ein unglaulich wichtiges Thema wurde aus purem Lobbyismus einfach totgeschwiegen, der Bevölkerung völlig falsch wiedergegeben und letztendlich lequidiert. ...und das schlimmste ist - das kann morgen erneut passieren.

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Karsten Jung

Interessante Einzelheiten über die damalige Situation, rund um den EV-1

Rezension aus Deutschland vom 15. Juni 2014

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Ich habe von diesem Video Ausschnitte im Internet gesehen und da war mir klar, ich muss sie kaufen.

Mag auch damit zusammen hängen, das ich einen Tesla Model S fahre.

Fand die Hintergründe sehr interessant.

Für jeden jeden zu empfehlen.

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Steffi

Filminhalt

Rezension aus Deutschland vom 23. Juni 2019

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Interessanter Film, empfehlenswert

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Der P.

Kritisch, zum Teil natürlich auch ein bisschen ideologisch eingefärbt.

Rezension aus Deutschland vom 8. August 2015

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Ich mag den Film - zeigt, dass die Skepsis gegenüber e-Mobilität natürlich auch ein bisschen aufgebauscht wird. Man muss sich aber beim sehen darüber im Klaren sein, dass es natürlich auch einen Markt für Verschwörungstheorien gibt, die der Film aufs beste bedient.
Wenn man nicht alles für bare Münze nimmt, eine echte Empfehlung.

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C.S.

Ein Skandal wird recherchiert

Rezension aus Deutschland vom 6. Februar 2007

Da hatte General Motors Mitte der 90er Jahre einen genialen Coup gelandet: der EV1, ein leistungsstarkes, sportliches und schönes Elektroauto war entworfen. Die Daten, Fahrleistungen und Tests waren sehr vielversprechend...

Doch heute ist es verschwunden...

Anfangs war der "General Motor" auch scheinbar noch sehr stolz auf sein Baby und es wurde beworben (wenn auch eher schlecht als recht) und weiterentwickelt. Nachdem die Interessentenzahlen, nicht zuletzt durch denkbar schlechtes Marketing und entsprechende politische Verleumdung des Konzeptes Elektroauto allgemein, hinter den Erwartungen zurückblieben, wurde das Fahrzeug nur verleast. Die breite Schicht der Menschen die es gefahren sind waren schlichtweg begeistert und wollten es gar nicht mehr hergeben bzw. nach dem Leasing übernehmen.

Doch es kam anders: General Motors zog die Fahrzeuge mit fadenscheinigen Begründungen komplett ein und verschrottete sie ! Fahrbereite, ausgereifte Autos, deren Besitzer viel Geld hingelegt hätten um sie behalten zu dürfen.

Der Film fragt nach den Schuldigen, nach politischen Hintergründen und deckt ähnliche Vorgegensweisen anderer Hersteller auf.

Ein Muss für alle die sich für nachhaltige Mobilität interessieren, denn es werden auch Perspektiven für die Zukunft aufgezeigt, aber auch Irrwege durchleuchtet.

Nachdem der Film auf dem Markt war setzte scheinbar selbst bei GM ein Umdenken ein, momentan haben sie ein neues E-Auto Projekt am Start. Meiner Meinung zwar längst nicht so effizient aerodynamisch und schön wie der EV1, aber immerhin. Das große Umdenken kommt, zwar spät aber immerhin.

Elektroautos: es gibt sie wirklich und sie sind eine echte Alternative für 90 % der Fahrten.

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Fred Crausaz

Pas de sous-titres en français

Rezension aus Deutschland vom 18. Juli 2010

Le film est génial ! Sauf qu'AMAZON indique que ce DVD a les sous-titres en français, eh bien c'est faux.

Impatient j'ai regardé le film sur daylimotion et là j'ai trouvé le fichier de sous-titres en français que je suis entrain de monter sur un nouveau DVD.

Méfiez vous des indications d'AMAZON et faite une recherche sur d'autre site avant d'acheter.

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Erich Habich

Verschwörung der Automobilindustrie, Politik und Ölkonzerne?

Rezension aus Deutschland vom 4. März 2007

Im Grunde genommen sind alle 3 Gebiete in den USA miteinander verquickt.

Vereinfacht gesagt, genau nachdem George W. Bush an die Macht kam wurde die politische Vorgabe gekippt, die besagte das Automarken auch Elektrowagen anbieten müssen.

Nach einem günstigen Upgrade der Batterietechnik (mit effizienteren NiMh oder LiLon Akkus) könnte der GM EV1 von 2002 heute problemlos eine Reichweite von über 260km haben.

Aber General Motors hat ausnahmslos alle Elektroautos gegen den Widerstand Ihrer Benutzer verschrotten lassen!

Es ist bedauerlich das nach über 2 Jahren es noch immer keine synchronisierte oder untertitelte Version dieser Dokumentation auf Deutsch vorliegt.

Es ist genauso bedauerlich das es in Deutschland keinen Anreiz für den Kauf von emmissionsfreien KFZ (Elektroautos) durch eine Steuerbefreiung gibt, wie z.B. in Großbrittanien.

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Dirk Müller-Paul

Who killed...

Rezension aus Deutschland vom 26. Oktober 2009

Man könnte meinen, dass der Inhalt nun schon fast überholt ist im aktuellen E-Car-Hype - ist er aber nicht.
Denn die bremsenden Kräfte, die damals wirkten, wirken heute auch noch, nur sind offenbar die antreibenden Kräfte stärker. Deshalb hilft der Film trotzdem, Hintergründe zu verstehen. Glücklicherweise sind auch einige der Politiker nun nicht mehr an der Macht :-)

Leider fand ich ihn auch beim zweiten Mal (mit deutschen Untertiteln) immer noch etwas verwirrend, weil irgendwie zerrissen. Die Kommentare der interviewten Personen passen z.T. irgendwie nicht oder ich habe nicht verstanden, was sie mir sagen sollen, wirken aus dem Zusammenhang gerissen. Meine Frau ist ab der Hälfte eingeschlafen, weil sich die Argumente dann (beabsichtigt) wiederholen, als es um die "Urteilsfindung" geht.

Klar wird: das damalige Elektroauto wurde in Hinblick auf den Zero Emmission Act entwickelt und dann zusammen mit ihm eingestampft, weil man eh nie ein E-Fahrzeug wollte. Das ist eher ein amerikanisches Problem, sollte man meinen, aber die Nachwirkungen sehen wir noch heute: Japan hat Hybride entwickelt und gebaut und dieser Funke hat eine neue Welle entflammt. Jetzt will keiner der letzte sein.

Ich kann den Film empfehlen. Er macht wachsam und weckt Begeisterung, regt zu Diskussionen an. Für Enthusiasten und Pioniere fast ein Muss - ob er Zweifler begeistert wage ich zu bezweifeln. Aber in diesen Zeiten des Umschwungs definitiv ein Hintergründe erhellendes Werk.

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"Teary Eyes" Anderson

Sometimes a car is like a best friend, and they need your protection too.

Rezension aus den Vereinigten Staaten vom 20. Dezember 2013

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The movie begins with the procession of a funeral, there is a car covered with black cloth, and there is a eulogy for the vehicle. The funeral is for the electric car the EV1, a series of electric vehicles (EVs), of which the director of the film Chris Paine had also been a leasee. All of the cars were eventually rounded up from their users by the manufacturer General Motors (GM), then nearly all were crushed, except those that had their drive train deactivated. The film follows the car's history and ultimate demise.

From the funeral, it then flashes back in time and tells about how electric vehicles had become popular, and meet a similar fate in the early 1900's. It tells about how gasoline cars began to outsell, and eventually replace the electric cars. This is told through mostly retro-archival footage. It then goes on to discuss, that with the growing use of gas the pollution around cities also grew, with California being the worst state impacted with this process. There are interviews with members of the 'California Air Resource Board' (CARB). Next the medical, and global effects of having so much gasoline pollution, are also discussed. Several attempts at electric vehicles through the 1970's are shown, but the story of electric vehicles doesn't picks up the pace until General Motors (GM) wins the "World Solar Challenge" in 1987 with their Sunraycer, and begin to try design a mass market electric vehicle (EV), which results in the 'Impact' a prototype car, and leading to the 'for lease only' EV1.

Once the prototype car was shown off at the automotive shows, the CARB members decide to try and get a 'zero emissions' law passed, on the percentage of these vehicles that must be produced for California if the companies wished to sell other types of gasoline powered vehicles. This electric vehicle 'zero emissions' law passed into law in 1990.

The film then introduces the marketing and legal difficulties associated with electric vehicles. From this point onwards the story of Chelsea Sexton a EV1 marketing specialist for GM is told. As she attempts to get leasers for the cars and eventually becomes one of the coordinators of news about what is happening with the EV1. There are also the stories of EV1 drivers and their experiences, with interviews by Alexandra Paul, Peter Horton, Tom Hanks (news footage), Doug Korthof, Mel Gibson, Paul Scott, J. Karen Thomas and Colette Divine.

At this point several other concurrent EV's are shown such as the Ford Think EV, and Ford Ranger EV, Honda EV Plus, Toyota RAV4 EV, and the Nissan Altra EV (which appeared several years before their LEAF). As the EV's gain in popularity the story shifts to those people against EV's, by such as; companies funded by oil companies, groups resistant of having tax money paying for public chargers, and the car companies that were forced to make cars, and whom felt they wouldn't get as much return on their investment in EV's. This begin their efforts to create less of a demand for such cars, and trying to limit their zero emissions requirements. They next show several later advertisements for the EV1, one of which is similar to an image of the aftermath of a atomic bomb, with black shadows on the grown, and part of the car slightly seen off to the side of the image. Another prime example is a skeletal type scarecrow in a field looking at a road, and in the distance a small EV1.

As the resistance against EV's mounts a new environmental scientist named Alan C. Lloyd is appointed to be chairman of CARB, who at first wants the car companies to work harder, and later helps to release most restrictions on 'zero emissions', and gets the 'electric car' version of the law removed. The car companies began to sue the state with help from President George W. Bush, and his funds for 'research into hydrogen powered vehicles'.

They film then shows excerpts from the 2003 CARB debates that removed several restrictions from the law including the 'electric car' mandate, to allow time for additional research into hydrogen, and alternatively powered zero emissions cars. According to news footage in the film 10% of vehicles sold in California that year would have been required to be zero emissions until the law was changed.

As the restrictions were lowered the car companies began to gather up all their leased cars, and prevent the users from releasing the cars. As their cars begin to be taken away some the owners begin to organize and make protests against the removal of the EV's.

The film then returns to the opening EV1 funeral, this time with reminisces from various drivers. After the funeral the movie follows the last EV1 to be picked up from its Los Angles leaser in July 2004. The drivers of the cars then keep a lookout over the repossessed cars and try to find out the fate of cars, once the car companies have gotten them back. With a little research and the help of aerial photography they find that the cars have shipped to Arizona where they were being crushed. The same thing is then shown to be happening with nearly all other EV's as they follow several vehicle manufactures and their roles in removing and destroying the cars they once leased.

The EV drivers become activists and start the 'Don't Crush' campaign, to try and get the cars to be returned to the people, and for the manufactures to allow the cars to be sold outright. The film then shows an excerpt from the movie The "Naked Gun 2 1/2" with its scene of corporate businessmen in a meeting room discussing how "no one is ever going to know about them."

The film then switches from results to causes, in the style of a 'Mystery', or 'Who Dun It', it looks at the various possible reasons these early Electric Vehicles were taken away and scrapped. First they look at the customers and what their demands might be, and if most people even knew if EVs were available at the time. It then looks at batteries, their range and prices. It tells of Stan Ovshinsky and his battery development of NiMh (Nickel–metal hydride battery) batteries, and how he gets pushed to the side after having GM buy controlling interest in his batteries for EVs, then in the year 2000, four years before EV1's were taken off the road, GM sold controlling interest of the battery company to Texaco, an oil company. Oil companies are then investigated for any role in the death of these EVs. It then compares GM's buying up street trams then shutting them down, to oil companies doing something similar. From there it looks at the car companies themselves, their fighting the law requiring them to make zero emission vehicles, and their efforts to try reduce the demand for them. It discusses their worries over sales, and little service requirements needed for EV's. It then looks at the production of GM's Hummer a military style SUV (sport utility vehicle) that is one of the "biggest gas guzzlers there is" for which people could get Federal tax credit of up to $100,000 for a vehicle 6,000 ponds or heavier. While for EVs the same credit was $4,000. They next take a look at politicians and how government policies helped to kill off these EVs, and how some of the key people in making the decisions, also were involved in car and oil companies. The film then looks back at the federal governments attempts at conserving oil and gas, by improving fuel economy, and how imports of oil have increased, as many of the regulations on vehicles fuel economy were removed. The viewers are then reminded that it took law for seatbelts, catalytic converters, and other things, before car companies finally began to produce them in all of their vehicles. The film makers then return to examine the reason that CARB (California Air Resources Board) removed many of their restrictions, starting with Alan Lloyd their chairman, saying that he visited all the car companies, and they told him "we can't produce these increasing number of the battery electric vehicles". With Alan feeling that it wasn't their job 'to force a certain number of, type of technology on the road'. It is then revealed that he was also chairmen of the Fuel Cell Partnership. Lastly there is a look at the Hydrogen Fuel Cell to see if they could have been a reason that the EV programs were discontinued. Bill Reinert of Toyota USA then gives a demonstration of their Fuel Cell SUV. He tells how instead of refueling at home like in an EV, a driver would have to go to a specialty station to refuel the Hydrogen, and that there were no plans as to when the fuel cell vehicle would be on the market. It then lists 5 things that would need to be changed before fuel cell vehicles would become practical. (1.) It was $1,000,00 for a vehicle, (2.) Storage improvement, (3.) It was more expensive then gas, (4.) It needs new type of fueling stations, (5.) That competing technology would out improve their performance, before the Fuel Cell Vehicles come to market, it then compares them to hybrid cars with electric motors.

The film then returns to 2005 as the protesters stand outside the car lot and watch as the EV1s are loaded onto trucks to be taken away and crushed. Two of their team park in front of the driveway blocking the trucks as they try to leave, and are arrested. They do this hoping to raise awareness of Electric Vehicles, and let other people know about what GM and other companies were doing in crushing these cars.

As an epilogue Chelsea visits the Petersen Automotive Museum, where a deactivated EV1 is sitting in their collection. The film makers then give their judgments on who they think helped to kill the electric car. All suspects are found guilty except the batteries, in which section the tZero a prototype of what would eventually develop into the Tesla Roadster is shown. They then show what the various people are doing after losing their EVs, several of which help to start "Plug-In America' a electric vehicle advocacy group. Ovshinsky the engineer responsible for many of the batteries in EVs, is then shown to be the President of another company, and shows off flexible solar cells that could be used as roofing shingles, in his own words "Anybody who wants to make a revolution shouldn't grab a gun, just go and start working like we do, and change the world by using science and technology." As the movie ends the people being interviewed are still hopeful for the future of EV's, and several newer EVs are shown.

The films writer/director Chris Pain makes a cameo appearance when asking if they can see the cars when they were taken away and in the storage lot. He is the one with a baseball cap, and the black and red coat. Martin Sheen does a wonderful narration which seems to flow smoothly, rather then in some documentaries where it seems every few sentences they seem to pause and read text. Lastly the music fits the scenes well, and is a mix of instrumental mood music by Michael Brook at points, with occasional popular music selections from rock to jazz.

Besides the DVD, the movie is available for direct digital viewing at places such as Amazon, YouTube and ITunes for $9.99, along with other locations. The DVD offers additional features such as;
* "Deleted scenes" 9 and a half minutes of of interview outtakes. A video comparison, diagram of facts and charts asking "Are EVs Less Polluting?" nearly 2 minutes long. "Street Theater" footage of Ford Think EVs funeral event and news about Ford canceling the destruction, and shipping them back to Norway, while agreeing to sell the originally only leased Ranger EVs, nearly 2 and a half minutes. "Shooting the EV1" footage of the team of film makers capturing the EV1 going around a race track and it's later race with the Hummer. "Who Killed the Electric Street Car?" a two minute excerpt from the film "Heartbeat of America" documentary about when GM bought out, and removed the electric street rail cars, from the USA, and their being charged with 'criminal conspiracy'.
* Jump-Starting the Future, 15 minutes of Peter Horton, Chris Paine, Dean Devlin, Wally Rippel and others discussing their thoughts on EVs after the EV1, and options for people still wanting to get off of oil. Things such as; (1.) Conversions Greg 'Gadget' Abbott (who is seen much more in the second 'Electric Car' film discusses converting gas cars to electric. (2.) Hybrids cars that use gas engines and a electric motor. (3). Alternate Fuels, Joe Gersen discusses biodiesel, and ethanol. (4.) Neighborhood Electric Vehicles, Russell Sydney talks about such modes of transportation as scooters and electric bikes. (5.) Community Activism, Chelsea Sexton, Linda Nicholes of Plug-In America talk about how they want to help educate and promote use of EVs, their message is "Tell people what you want".

There are two other bonus features listed;
* Meeky Rosie music video for "Forever" with footage of the band and scenes from the movie, nearly 4 minutes long.
* French subtitles for the movie. There are sadly no English subtitles, but the film is Close Captioned in English.

If you like this film I recommend that you check out the Plug-In America's sponsored "What is the Electric Car?" It tells more of the story of the EV1, and the insurance requirements that lead to the cars being destroyed, as well as additional interviews from many of the same people. I think of it as 'Electric Car 1.5', and being followed by the much different "Revenge of the Electric Car".

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Zippy

Who killed the DVD?

Rezension aus dem Vereinigten Königreich vom 21. April 2007

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This film left me feeling angry, betrayed, hateful of my own petrol engined car, and desperate to crush my mondeo and terminate my £300-800/annum motor-repair bill in exchange for any commuter/shopper/runaround EV with a reasonable range. See end of this review for a real, practical and attractive EV coming to the UK late 2007/early 2008 that I intend to buy asap.

Is it me or is this DVD hard for general punters to get hold of on the high street in the UK? It barely appears in HMV, Virgin megastores et al, and the only copy I found was in Virgin for a price of £20! Adding to the conspiracy theory posited in the movie, I suspect that vested interests have once again flexed their financial muscle to either acquire and shred every copy of this dvd they can get their hands on to keep the British public in the dark, or have done a dodgy deal with the dvd retailers to keep the price too high for Joe Public to take an interest. If Casino Royale can appear in Asda for £6 then this dvd should be available for a £10-15 just like any other brand new dvd. Anyone else think they might have killed the dvd just like they did the EV1, Ford Th!nk, Ford Ranger EV, Toyota Rav4 EV, etc, to protect their UK servicing revenues? I never bought into conspiracies that much, but the desperate car-crushing campaign sounded way too plausible to dismiss in the face of customers totally prevented from being able to buy/re-leasing the EV1, and the dvd may also have been 'erased' in a similar fashion.

Want a stylish EV in the UK and dont want a pathetic golfkart? Well campaigners at dontcrush dot com persuaded Ford to sell their dangerously popular Th!nk city to Norway (presumably because Norway is not seen as a threat to American revenues), and theyre selling their new and much improved City Th!nk EV to UK/Norwegian markets late 2007/early 2008, with a range of 110miles and speed of 60mph ish. Even if they dont sell em in the UK I might go over to Norway and buy one anyway - check out 'pivco dot no' (norwegian addy) and email an enquiry for info.

Try mygreenwheels dot com for a good ev comparison guide. Also google the new upcoming Smart EV and the 3 seater Volvo 3CC, both EVs soon to be available to UK punters. The USA will have the Zap Ovio 012E (160mph range 200-240miles), and the SUT and SUV from Phoenixmotors dot com, either of which I'd take out a loan for to switch for my mondeo if they ever sold them in £0.90/Litre Britain. Guess thats why Blair and co desperately want to introduce road charging, anticipating the mass migration away from extortionate fuel duty revenues once decent EV alternatives to high-maintenance petrol cars arrive. Next new car: No plug? NO DEAL!

In ten years people will be shredding their petrol engined cars just like they did to the EV1, and GM et al will be kicking themselves for missing the electric boat.

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Jsh

Vital viewing, not just for conspiracy theorists

Rezension aus dem Vereinigten Königreich vom 28. November 2009

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Sometimes I watch documentaries etc that make me despair about aspects of what is happening in the world. It is rare for me to watch something that makes me angry, but "Who Killed The Electric Car?" did that. It stirred in me an underlying anger that has been there since I tried to buy the electric version of the Toyota Rav 4 some years ago. "What electric version?" you might think. Exactly - most people have never even heard of their existence because, like a number of other electric cars of the time, the electric Rav 4 was killed off.

I drove one of the limited number of electric Rav 4's built whilst staying in the Channel Islands some years ago. They were excellent vehicles, but their production was halted and many of the existing ones are reported to have been destroyed by the manufacturer. I've been in the market for a new car for a few years, but have been telling Toyota sales people that I won't be buying another Rav 4 until they re-introduce the electric, or at least a plug-in hybrid (the plug-in is significant in that bit).

For anybody doing 50 or 60 miles per day (or even more), it is perfectly possible for a car to do that purely from batteries without an internal combustion engine having to kick in. Given that the national average daily mileage is less than that, the majority of the population could drive without using petrol. Yes, the energy still has to be produced, but there are far cleaner and more efficient ways of doing it than the internal combustion engine. That's the background to my anger about this. What "Who Killed The Electric Car?" did was to show that other manufacturers also created perfectly capable electric cars years ago, but that they also then destroyed them.

This DVD describes the relationships between the automobile manufacturers, the oil producers, the automotive support industries, the federal government in the USA, the state government of California etc, putting forward why and how the electric car was effectively killed off. Although there are some signs that electric cars may appear in larger numbers in future, their mass production has been delayed by the industry for years, and this DVD explains why and how.

When automobile manufacturers take taxpayers money to survive, the government should be forcing (with legally binding agreements) them to make vehicles that make strategic sense in terms of people's health and climate change (although the energy still has to be produced, it can be done more efficiently and more cleanly than using a combustion engine). If the manufacturers won't agree to that, then nationalise them and sell them to somebody who will do so. It the current shareholders don't like that idea then they should force the directors to avoid that scenario from happening.

Excellent DVD. Very watchable. Watch it, then send it to your MP for him or her to watch.

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A reader

Eye opener but narrow in focus

Rezension aus dem Vereinigten Königreich vom 27. August 2008

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This was an eye-opener for me. I got it on the back of a generally greeny-liberal temperament, concerned about increasing fuel prices and global warming, and wondering what the alternatives were. I found the behaviour of big business so bizarre it left me with the niggling suspiciion that the fossil-fueled vehicle on the drive was only there because of a global industrial conspiracy. But as demand drives supply (or so I learned at school), electric alternatives should be becoming increasingly common as oil prices surge ever upwards.

There is, however, another problem. Towards the end of the film there is a brief clip with a billboard in the background, advertising (I think) public transport). It proclaimed, "Ensuing no-one in LA needs to walk again". There are frequent clips of clogged freeways and traffic jams. And (using the motor industry's own conceit) clips of EV-1s and other electric cars heading down deserted highways in the middle of the wilderness.

Electric cars aren't going to be a panacea, but the film does become rather evangelical - it becomes almost a hymn to the EV-1. Electric cars may not produce pollution as they drive down the road, but they are just as guilty of all the other negatives of motorised transport - death and injury, the fracturing of society by the development of commercial and social infrastructure that demands the use of individual motorised transport. And at present electric cars can only be an option for affluent and articulate middle classes.

At that point the film failed for me - it made a very good point about the domination of the transport economy by big business. And I would agree that electric cars can and should be part of the solution. A more balanced view, however, would be to put the EV-1 and its stablemates in the context of a menu of transport choices that includes public transportation, cycling and (even in LA) walking.

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Guy Denutte

How Big Oil obliges us to continue contaminating the environment

Rezension aus den Vereinigten Staaten vom 13. Februar 2009

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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 !

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