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 Who Killed the Electric Car?Sales Rank:531List Price: $14.94 Lowest New Price: $7.82 Lowest Used Price: $7.75 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Total Reviews: 284 Customer Reviews:Rating: 5 Absolutely excellent documentary! "Who killed the Electric Car" is absolutely great and reflects a microcosm of politics that occur on a national scale. Anybody and everybody that is concerned about the environment, clean energy and the security of the U.S.A. should watch this and see how Corporate Greed has taken over politics and the practical applications of principles that work. With the electric car, we had accomplished a goal: a non-polluting vehicle that got up to 300 miles per charge, and we were forced to abandoned it because of Corporate politics and greed. This documentary also tells you how the big oil companies lead you on and now they talk of the hydrogen cell car which the experts in the documentary state is not economically feasible and cannot work. This documentary is truly an eye opening experience. It is one of these films that remind me of a statement of a famous person (who I cannot recall at this time, and the saying is not verbatim): "A mind once expanded, cannot return to it's former state" I highly recommend this documentary and hope all reply with a call to action to your representatives. Brian Rating: 5 DVD lauched my interest not to buy another gas car. Share it with as many people as you can. I shared my copy with a US Senate candidate. Rating: 5 Corporate malfeasance once again exposed On its surface, Who Killed the Electric Car? is an excellent but ultimately disturbing and depressing documentary about what happened to GM's EV-1 and Toyota's RAV4. What the film is really about, though, is how pervasive and nefarious the influence of corporate America is on most of our domestic policy decisions. We all know that corporate America has infiltrated our lives in various ways (from non-stop advertising to the push to use more pharmaceuticals), but this documentary will disturb you anyway, because it also shows how easily politicians and scientists fold under pressure from corporate interests -- even when those interests are clearly not in the best interest of our population. What's interesting about the electric cars featured in this documentary is that they worked so well GM and Toyota had to remove them from the marketplace lest they disturb the balance sheets of the hundreds of companies that depend on combustion-engine vehicles -- auto makers, big oil, auto parts manufacturers/distributors, fueling stations, etc. Now they sell us on hybrids and hydrogen powered vehicles, and you'll understand why that's largely bunk after watching this movie. I would laugh at what's happening to the auto industry today -- they're reaping what they've sown, let's face it -- if it weren't for the fact that thousands of people will continue lose their jobs and soldiers will continue to die in the Middle East as auto and Big Oil executives skate away with millions. There is one glimmer of hope, and it's the same thing we've come to expect re: change in our society. It's not the politicians, bureaucrats or corporations that invite change, it's individuals with a passion/drive for change. From Rosa Parks to the engineers and activists who are working on alternative fuel solutions, it's the little people who somehow break through and say, no more. Rating: 4 made many good points but missed one As we expected, the documentary is very informative and well-developed. It seems to miss a suspect that might have killed the electric car, the car designer who failed to give an option for a hybrid electric working mode. The consumers should NOT be the convicted suspect, because they are the judge and measure how successful a product is to be. If a hybrid electric plug-in car was available, I believe that both manufacturers and consumers would have more confidence in such a product. Rating: 5 Informative - an Eye Opening Look at the U.S. Auto Industry Anyone who wonders why our transportation system is dedicated to maximum short term profits on inefficient vehicles should take a look at this story. Hopefully this will stir us to look at increasing our choices for moving around from nearly total auto dependency to a mix of fuel efficient private vehicles, transit, and better pathways for non motorized travel. The alternative is to keep pumping money to the Saudis, and multi-billion dollar military actions in the Mid East. |