Who Killed the Electric Car?

I was awake late last night/early this AM when I turned on my TV and flipped through a couple late night movies. I came across a title I had seen but was not really aware of the content of the movie “Who Killed the Electric Car?”.

It is a painful review of how special interests, federal government corruption, corporate greed and the apathy of the American public can combine to steer our society in a decidedly backwards direction. Instead of progressing forward into the future, the combined effects of these to cover up truth and replace it with misinformation, effectively stifling progress towards petroleum-free transportation.

It is sad to se how we as a society shot ourselves in the foot, but the lessons we could learn from this apply to many other areas - climate change, health care, poverty, food and control of the internet, etc. Beware the opinion of experts who may have alternate agendas!

Who Killed the Electric Car? is a 2006 documentary film that explores the birth, limited commercialization, and subsequent death of the battery electric vehicle in the United States, specifically the General Motors EV1 of the 1990s. The film explores the roles of automobile manufacturers, the oil industry, the US government, batteries, hydrogen vehicles, and consumers in limiting the development and adoption of this technology.

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