Have you seen "Who Killed the Electric Car?" If not, I highly HIGHLY recommend it. We hosted it for our Second Saturday group in January and it's very instructive.
We pretty much had the perfect, affordable electric car about 10 years ago, but for various reasons (enumerated in the movie), the car was scrapped (and not for the reasons you might think). American car companies sunk their future in the SUV and Toyota, fearing the future of the electric car developed by GM, began working on what would become the Prius...cementing them at the top of the auto market and ensuring what will most likely be the eventual demise of the Big 3 (unless they make some radical changes).
So the irony? The plug-in electric car led to the development of the electric hybrid car, which will ultimately lead to...the plug-in electric car.
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Date: 2007-07-26 12:56 am (UTC)Have you seen "Who Killed the Electric Car?" If not, I highly HIGHLY recommend it. We hosted it for our Second Saturday group in January and it's very instructive.
We pretty much had the perfect, affordable electric car about 10 years ago, but for various reasons (enumerated in the movie), the car was scrapped (and not for the reasons you might think). American car companies sunk their future in the SUV and Toyota, fearing the future of the electric car developed by GM, began working on what would become the Prius...cementing them at the top of the auto market and ensuring what will most likely be the eventual demise of the Big 3 (unless they make some radical changes).
So the irony? The plug-in electric car led to the development of the electric hybrid car, which will ultimately lead to...the plug-in electric car.