Well, I can't tell you, as it would give the ending away. But let's just say, the blame is shared.
Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006) is a documentary investigating why GM recalled their electric car, the EV1. It also touches on some other car makers and their short-lived electric cars as well.
The ubiquitous Ed Begley Jr. appears, and while David Zucker doesn't appear in person, there is a clip from Naked Gun 2 1/2.
We very much enjoyed this movie. It goes from thought-provoking to deeply depressing to charming and even optimistic. Get on your bicycle and go to the video store to rent it!
And P.S.: Despite their claims that consumers didn't want an electric car(!), GM has now unveiled their new -- you guessed it -- electric car, the Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid.
We shall see...
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We LOVE our Civic Hybrid. It's funny that GM keeps reintroducing the electric car. Bicycling is probably the most efficient way to travel over medium distances (the kinds of distances that the Volt is supposed to help cover). Long distance is most efficiently covered by mass transit. I guess we Americans like the possibility of going where other people don't want us to go.
According to the movie, while people believe they need a car that goes hundreds of miles, their average daily use is like 30 miles. It's not so much that they go anywhere in their cars, but that they like to think they could if they wanted to. Unless they take regular road trips, their cars are big, expensive, environmentally and politically problematic security blankets.
When we lived on the Mainland, we really did take our car long distances (and that's why the hybrid is an appealing compromise). But there is no reason anyone living on Oahu, for instance, needs anything that goes over 100 miles or over 60 mph. Yet you'd be amazed at how many Jaguars and SUVs there are. (At least you can put a surfboards in your SUV.) Most Hawaiians don't even need hybrids -- electric would do.
While cycling/walking/bussing are all better environmentally, if there was the convenience of transportation that kept me out of the rain, could carry multiple people, and runs on my own schedule -- well, that just seems like the best of all worlds. While we don't use it every day, we do enjoy having our little Geo 'Micro.' It's awfully nice to have when it's raining -- as it is wont to do here much of the winter -- or to meet out of town visitors, make a trip to Costco, etc. (And I don't think it goes over 60 mph anyway.)
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