You are being taken folks. The only rational explanation I can see for this movie is exploitation of people's passions over gas prices. The EV1 was a large car with modest actual cargo capacity; it's range was poor, and the electric technology did not eliminate fossil fuel consumption at allit merely offload the burn from the internal combustion engine to the power plant. Yes folks, most of our electricity comes from coal or oil, and most of our power distribution systems are terribly inefficient, so there's little chance that electric cars would even match carbon output of gasoline cars, much less reduce it. As an added bonus the heavy (and toxic) lead acid batteries meant that more power was required to propel the same amount of people/cargo as a IC auto.
Electric vehicles were never a viable nor desirable alternative; and without nationwide clean, efficient power plants give little environmental value if any. The legislation which forced American automakers to devote R&D efforts into developing solely electric vehicles, in fact, set the American Automakers a good 5 years behind the Japanese in the much more viable and beneficial hybrid vehicles, a market Toyota effectively dominates at this point. Where is the outcry over clean burning diesel that Europe and other areas have had for long enough that most European automakers had to stop importing their new diesel engines? Our diesel has so much sulfur in it that the direct inject engines corrode.
This is a shell game folks, and this movie is the misdirection to keep people angry over red herrings, and make a buck at it while they're at it. Don't let them make money off of ignorance, make the effort, learn about these technologies on your own.
Electric vehicles were never a viable nor desirable alternative; and without nationwide clean, efficient power plants give little environmental value if any. The legislation which forced American automakers to devote R&D efforts into developing solely electric vehicles, in fact, set the American Automakers a good 5 years behind the Japanese in the much more viable and beneficial hybrid vehicles, a market Toyota effectively dominates at this point. Where is the outcry over clean burning diesel that Europe and other areas have had for long enough that most European automakers had to stop importing their new diesel engines? Our diesel has so much sulfur in it that the direct inject engines corrode.
This is a shell game folks, and this movie is the misdirection to keep people angry over red herrings, and make a buck at it while they're at it. Don't let them make money off of ignorance, make the effort, learn about these technologies on your own.