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 earlier, people reconsidered electric cars. So began to invest in research and development, "in 1996 there were a lot of electric cars on the road in California" but ten years later, almost disappeared
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This film explores why. It is believed that the oil tycoons ultimately stopped the development of electric vehicles. He rooted this potential (the future of electric vehicles) and historical events as if they had never happened.
Three points to think about:
1. Americans are not so noble, and Chinese people are not so wretched. Pragmatism, utilitarianism, any nation will do this. It's just different in different cultural backgrounds. However, the Chinese lack a long-term vision, and only seek small profits and short-term profits. The so-called quick success. There are Chinese people who flatter themselves to seek power, and there are Americans who tan themselves to show off their wealth.
2. In a human society where the strong eat the weak, there are bound to be rulers and the ruled. There is bound to be a small group of people who control a lot of resources. And when certain people take that position, he consolidates on the one hand and prevents other pretenders on the other.
And now, there is a group of people who don't want to compete for this position, but people who want to overthrow this class, people who overthrow this position. Then those with vested interests in high positions will do everything possible to obstruct it.
Historically, there have been many groups claiming to overthrow this hierarchy. Communism, peasant uprising.
However, this time, it touches on the foundation of market economic conditions - scarcity of resources.
Because solar energy, wind energy, and nuclear energy are not scarce.
3. Who is to blame? Are those oil tycoons? So if the person sitting in those positions right now is not ExxonMobil, not Shell, but you, but me, but a documentary filmmaker, what would you do, what would I do? What would a documentary filmmaker do? I believe we make the same choice: suppress and contain. So who is to blame?
A Human weakness, human inferiority, or survival instinct. The instinct to maintain, the instinct to maintain stability.
B's inertia. In fact, from a logical point of view, when those oil tycoons saw the infinite potential of electric vehicles, they could actually put their power on the new electric vehicles with infinite potential, but they did not do so. They chose to be content with the status quo. Willing to change. Like Hem and Haw in Who Moved My Cheese, even the great entrepreneurs do.
When Ford (FORD) created the Model T, it was brilliant and successful, and he was a pioneer in innovation in that era. The godfather of innovation, but in the end, Ford refused to make any changes. It has to be said that after a new model is established, it often falls into routine and rests on its laurels. No matter how refreshing and successful this model was at the time. Because of this, we must always be vigilant against this inferiority. Remember Mao Zedong. the same.
4. Under certain historical conditions, when people make choices, they choose A and give up B. Going further and further on the road of A, after more than ten years, decades later, I found that the road of A is getting more and more difficult. But at this time, people often forget that there is plan B at that time. Even sometimes when we look back, when we initially made a choice between A and B, the process of A winning was so simple and casual, or so infiltrated with interests and power struggles.
A can be to build the Three Gorges, B can be not to build the Three Gorges, A can be
a planned economy, B can be a market economy Not coming out. . . .
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