Who Killed the Electric Car?

By Gudrun 2022-03-23 08:01:04

The story behind the EV1

The story behind the EV1 is roughly as follows. Under pressure from the Federal Environmental Protection Agency, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) mandated that zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) sales should account for 10% of total vehicle sales by 2003. General Motors (GM) was forced to launch the EV1, a pure electric vehicle, in 1996, but it didn't get people's love. ZEV moved the oil companies' cheese, so the oil companies didn't hesitate to buy companies that supply batteries for...

By Hester 2022-03-23 08:01:04

some notes

1 consumer, some due to advertisement failure
2 battery 60miles statistic:29 per day
  stan Ovshinsky
  Delco battery-->old technology, lead acid?
3 oil company,(Chevron-Texaco) buy battery company and shut it down, like GM bought trolley system
        Chevron-Texaco
        2003:33billion
        2004:47billion
        2005:64billion
        some people argue that EV will shift the energy production to coal
4 car company , hate the...

By Ivy 2022-03-23 08:01:04

It turns out that we (consumers) are also murderers

"Who Killed The Electric Car" prefers this one to "An Inconvenet Truth". No political shadow and no pretence. After watching this film, I realized that electric vehicles once existed, and I also realized that murder is terrible. The same thing that brought common interests and low pollution was actually murdered alive.

Although electric vehicles are no longer available, some consumers still like them and remodel them by themselves.

Although this electric vehicle revolution...

By Kristoffer 2022-03-23 08:01:04

Electric vehicles must be Chinesecars

In the United States, how much artillery shells and money have been squandered for the Middle East is for the monopoly of capitalists and Israelis in the energy industry. On the surface, the retreat of the electric vehicle trend is the choice of American consumers, but in fact it is greed for votes and desire for interests , and the ambition to control global energy, this is the American dream, and it is also a capitalist dream, when the oil fields of Texas, Oklahoma and California in the...

By Celestine 2022-03-23 08:01:04

Four thoughts

Plot

In the early 20th century, electric cars were all the rage over gas cars. On the street, the former far outnumbers the latter. But later, the rapid development of fuel vehicles, the momentum gradually surpassed electric vehicles. In this way, history chose gasoline vehicles. At the time, history made the right choice. However, with more and more pollution and more and more consumption of energy, it has been found that gas cars have many disadvantages. So, in the 1990s, or even...

By Demond 2022-03-27 09:01:23

Such a spirit: We do...

By Houston 2022-03-27 09:01:23

Four and a half stars. This is a multinational company. Don’t think that in the modern commodity society, your life is full of dazzling choices. In fact, what mobile phone you use, what brand you wear, what food you eat every day, and what kind of car you drive, someone has already decided for...

By Francisco 2022-03-27 09:01:23

In the end, it's still a vision of the American dream. Sometimes the application of technology is not limited by technology, but by the chain of interests involved. PS The movie itself has 3 and a half stars, but the thinking it causes far exceeds the movie...

By Gia 2022-03-27 09:01:23

How to stay entertained with an objective...

By Lurline 2022-03-27 09:01:23

I will cry when I see the funeral after the previous preparations. I will buy an electric car in the...