Who Killed the Electric Car? A short review

The short answer to the title is "The EV is not dead." [EV = electric vehicle]

Yes, the General Motors model EV1 is dead. This movie details, from the Board of Directors through engineering, advertising and front line marketing to end users who organized and worked to save it, who fought to kill it (quite literally shred them) and how, why, and when that happened.

It sounds dry, but so does the story of “Titanic” (we all know the ship sank, we all know Oil killed the EV). The stakes here are the well being of a society, and we are part of the movie. The audience applauded at the end. The film encourages us with options. A pampheteer outside the theater provided me with these links:

• www.pluginamerica.com
• www.pluginpartners.com
• www.calcars.org
• www.eaa-phev.org
• www.eaaev.org

Its a political documentary. If what happened to the EV 1 doesn't assault your sense of social morality or/and mid-to-long term capital strategy, then you can go back to "parading your Hummer" and skip this movie. If you're a Chevron stockholder or a member of a royal family, you should wear your thickest skin.