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[aboxofchocolates]

It was available and usable all along!! I knew it!! Awsome CBC documentary on how the powers that be suppressed the electric car. I just finished watching it and I am not sure how to get a link off the CBC website. Here's the site for the documentary, though:

http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/passionateeyeshowcase/2009/electriccar/index.html

[movybuf]

That was an very interesting documentary. There seems to be a lot of debate on the content of the film. I can't say if it is just the industry's propaganda against the film, or actual criticism. Either way, it really gets you thinking.

[Rusty Shackleford]

I haven't watched the film, though I may give it a fair screening. However the idea of a fully electric car still seems counter-intuitive to me. Where does the electricity come from? Coal, gas, oil etc burning power plants. So if we had more electric cars would we really be better off?

They have numerous other faults such as lack of range (compared to gasoline engines), bulky batteries that are expensive to replace. The fact that the infrastructure from the top down simply doesn't exist, as I alluded to earlier, as well as "refueling" stations.

It's easy to blame "the powers that be" whoever they are but there is a whole lot more to it than that. Might go off and watch it then since you were kind enough to post the link.

[Chuvok]

[soul rebels]

rusty "i haven't whatched the film" if you had it would answer your questions on bulky batteries, range and even speed.

from memory it was GM who made the car to comply with USA regulations
and the car had people who were fans of it was apparently the best electric car yet. GM only leased the car and never put a picture of the car in a single advert for it then recalled all the cars and crushed them into scrap metal. the reasons were that they only ever made it as a token gesture to comply with the law and GM is in bed too deep with oil companies an the succes of this car would have hurt thier oil buddies...
no wonder GM is fucken broke an begging for money now!

[pokesplort]

i love that movie. it made me mad at everyone including myself. they really try and spread the blame around. yes its the car companies and oil companies fault, but its also a bit of the consumer's fault too. at the time everyone wanted giant bigger cars than their neighbor had etc etc. i just remember how there were so few people who leased them (or allowed to lease them i dont remember if there was a limit placed). and then they tried so hard not to get their cars taken away and smushed. thats all the did, they just destroyed them. its like, here's something we sold to you and it was working, affordable, no problems at all, but now we'd like it back so we can crush it up into cubes, mkay thanks. i'm still pissed about it actually.

[Xuanzang]

Too advanced for its time. Reminds me of the Avro Arrow story everytime I think about it.