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Electric Car? Who Killed it?
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Who Killed the Electric Car? Some good sites.
Date: 1/7/2009 11:15:19 AM ( 15 y ago)
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i have to return the DVD today, or rerent again from
Blockbuster.
Looking on the web:
Here are some good sites:
shows excerpts:
http://www.sonyclassics.com/whokilledtheelectriccar/
http://www.sonyclassics.com/whokilledtheelectriccar/electric.html
buy here:
http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=1...
quotes from preview:
One trillion of business yet to be done with oil, so kill it.
Murder by GM?
Shreading new cars.
Big blunder.
NOW on PBS:
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/223/
NOTES ON WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR?
Chapter ONE:
Funeral for the Electric Car....
1996 began to appear...
ten years later...almost all gone..
why should we be haunted by the ghost of the electric car?
100 years ago...electric...exxisted as well.
Alan S. Lowelthal
Chris Paine film
Alan Coconi...engineer...made advances...
Roger Smith CEO up to 1990...GM
California Air Resources Board...
Zero Emissions Mandate....98 2%
other....
EVI....first...Saturn Division...
Chelsea Sexton...helped develop it....worked for GM...
got involved...worked in LA Region...
Alexandra Paul...EV Driver...
Mel Gipson
Tom Hanks
Greg Hanssen...
70-80 miles a charge...Hanks..
60 cents a gallon..
Peter Horton...driver
group formed to kill it..
Ulitity abuse concerned...
funded by oil industry...
Oil Companies paid for editorials..
shift energy to goal....environmental problems...
they said....
said, longer tailpipe...
showed electric drive more effecidnt...
electricity from coal fired plants...
said...only rich people could buy them...
car companies said mandate too strict...
felt they were going over a cliff.
CHAPTER !!
quote from Dave Barthmuss
from the film:
AVE BARTHMUSS: There’s one of four things that will happen with the EV-1s. They will go to colleges and universities, engineering schools. They’ll go to museums and other displays across the country. Other EV-1 vehicles are being driven by our engineers. And the other option for the EV-1s at the end of their life is recycling. But know that every one—every part of the EV-1 is going to be recycled, dismantled through a third party and then reused. Everything is going to be recycled. We’re not just going to crush it and send it off to a landfill.
http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/9E4435EF-D406-4C73-8D88-E23AE34A34B7/
First stage one smog alert in five years..same day...
funeral of EV...
Ed Begley...at funeral...can only meet the needs of 90% of the people.
July 2004...last of the EV ones on the road...
Peter Horton, has last one...
Taken to Mesa Az...GM Proving grounds...
where first tested....crushedand on flatbeds...
They will be to
Reccyled and reused...
RELATED LINKS:
PETER HORTON ON HIS EV:
http://ecomall.com/greenshopping/peterev1.htm
The only name I had was EV1 brand manager Ken Stewart. The only phone number, a general GM listing in Detroit, Mich. The operator answered after the second ring. "Yes, I'd like to speak with Ken Stewart please." "Who's calling?" "Well, um, my name is Peter Horton and I'm writing about the EV1. . . . " "Hold please." After a few moments, "Yes, he'd like you to call Dave Barthmuss over at public relations." "Dave who?" "Barthmuss, B A R T. . . ."
Dave Barthmuss was a polite, swizzle stick of a PR man, charming and direct without divulging very much.
Me: "Why did you guys decide not to continue with the EV1? It's such a great car."
Dave: "The big issue was we could only lease about 700 cars in the first four years."
"But you only made 648 cars in the first four years. How could you lease more if you didn't make more?"
"If we had leased more, we would've made more."
"That doesn't sound like a very aggressive marketing approach."
"If there had been a market, we would've been more aggressive."
And so on. Finally he told me he had no problem letting me talk to Ken.
I liked Ken. His opening statement was, "GM is still very bullish on the tech side of this car. The more you learn, the more gee whiz there is in it. The problem is the batteries."
Somehow the use of the phrase "gee whiz" without irony made me think he was a decent guy.
DAVE BARTHMUSS REBUTTAL 2006
http://fyi.gmblogs.com/2006/06/who_ignored_the_facts_about_th.html
TIMELINE:
2005...removed from Burbank....
GUILTY?
Who HYDROGEN FULL CELL?
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