In the documentary movie, Who Killed the Electric Car, the answer was the government, corporations and people. Not a big seller claimed GM.
It might have been like the laser disc, watch a movie or music concert on your tv in your own home. The laser disc mostly failed to VHS tape not Sony’s betacam. The Sony system was better but VHS had the movies and their machine was 20 percent the price of the Sony unit. And, at the time, VHS had three speeds which seemed like an added bonus. But that’s not why the laser disc failed. With VHS or Betacam, you could record shows right off your tv while you were sleeping or doing something else. More than that, you could buy a video camera and watch your own home made movies. But laser disc persisted as a system and was the best, as in betacam was better than vhs but failed to have the movies, big mistake. How does this relate to the destruction of the EV1? It doesn’t. Not directly. The EV1 was sabotaged. The laser disc was phased out through competition.
The EV1 (GM’s all electric vehicle of the ’90′s) could travel 150 miles on a single charge. They leased these vehicles to companies and at least one movie star, Tom Hanks. Then when they decided the Electric Vehicle One was a bad idea, they called in their leases, recovered all the vehicles, and General Motors willingly destroyed not only all the EV1′s but took the plans out into the Arizona desert, shredded them and tossed them to the wind.
Today, the new GM Volt will travel 40 miles before it must switch to the accompanying combustion engine to take it any further.
Really, what’s going on? Has GM forgotten totally how to remake the EV1?
It’s like we’ve forgotten how to go to the moon.
A NASA spokesperson was heard to say, we don’t have the technology right now to land and safely return a man from the moon. Maybe the Apollo plans were also shredded in the Arizona desert along with those of the EV1.
Did we go to the moon? Some say it was an American cold war stunt against the Russians, something created on Stanley Kubrick’s Space Odyssey moon set. Personally I believe that is a hoax and America did go to the moon. Why not return? They say in hushed tones, somebody else was already there. They also say the secret US space program has bases on the moon and mars.
True or not, the EV1 was real and GM killed a better electric car than they have today.
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It would appear that rational logic does not prevail.
Now we have Ford who is going to build an electric car, which sounds a lot like the original GM electric car.
Is the public actually asleep, in such a deep sleep that they are completely unaware that the electric car is not a new idea.
It feels as though we live in a rabbit hole with a girl called Alice, where nothing is what it seems to be, not even Alice.