tarabell
06-01-2006, 09:33 AM
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you....;)
Three years later [Chris Paine] has finished his film, a startling documentary entitled Who Killed the Electric Car?, which manages to turn received wisdom about the EV almost entirely on its head, and, in a series of interviews with key players - designers, engineers, marketing specialists, politicians, industry regulators and consumer advocates - makes a powerful case that California's experiment with EVs was deliberately sabotaged, and ultimately strangled, by a coalition of oil companies and car companies, along with their political allies, for base motives of short-term profit.
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article623261.ece
Three years later [Chris Paine] has finished his film, a startling documentary entitled Who Killed the Electric Car?, which manages to turn received wisdom about the EV almost entirely on its head, and, in a series of interviews with key players - designers, engineers, marketing specialists, politicians, industry regulators and consumer advocates - makes a powerful case that California's experiment with EVs was deliberately sabotaged, and ultimately strangled, by a coalition of oil companies and car companies, along with their political allies, for base motives of short-term profit.
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article623261.ece