Eulogizing the EV1 [Review]
By Pamela Grossman
Seedmagazine.com
Friday, June 30, 2006 12:58 AM
A talk with Chris Paine, director of Who Killed the Electric Car?
.... Documentary filmmaker Chris Paine examines the plight of the EV1 in his passionate and informative film, Who Killed the Electric Car? The film tells a powerful story with the car as its doomed hero. "You made me cry over a car!" one viewer told Paine after a screening. ....
The EV1 was scrapped before it could really catch on, supposedly because there was no demand for it.
If that was the case, why did EV1 drivers band together and plead with GM for the right to buy the car? Why were they denied? Why, at the time that the car's production was halted, did the waiting list for an EV1 extend into the thousands? Why were EV1s not only reclaimed by GM, but destroyed? Why was the original zero-emission mandate revoked? And why, just last month, was the EV1 removed from the Smithsonian, where it had been for more than a year, and replaced with an SUV?
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