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Department
Geography
Course Code
GGRC21H3
Professor
Hostovsky
Film: Who Killed the Electric Car?
•California has the poorest air quality
•In 1989, a study found many vehicles in Los Angeles caused respiratory diseases,
and they produced more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which leads to global
warming
•In 1987, GM won the one of a kind solar powered vehicle award
•GM’s air resources board saw electric opportunity to solve another problem
•Passed the gas emission test
•EVI – the first electric production car in 21st century
oWas fast, elegant, sexy, fairly priced, quiet
oAll you need to do is just plug it in at night, and when you need to drive just
unplug it
oThe cost of driving this is the same as driving a gasoline car
•Not everyone was sure that electric cars would save US
•People are very cautious about the new electric car
•“I don’t know if it will be strong enough, how far it will go”
•Car companies made car compliance
•For the regulation, they GM felt that they needed to change something
•Then laid off assembly line and sales staff
•GM models have been going back to the decades
•White House joins fight against Electric Cars
•Federal government joined the car companies to introduce Hydrogen cars
•California killed its electric car mandate April 2002
•Across California, drivers held protests to save electric cars
•With no more electric cars on the road, GM now has their own EV1 fleet
•No clue as to where the cars were going
•About 50 EV1s were crushed and piled one on top of another
•It was wrong, but more wrong was reasons for it
•EV1s were not the only electric vehicles in jeopardy
•In Los Angeles, Toyota has RAV4 EVs that are also shredded into a million pieces
•Activists came together to bring back the EV1s on the roads, but despite the 1.9
million dollar cheque, it was useless
•Who killed the electric car?
oBig oil companies
oAir resources board
oCar companies say that there was not enough demand for electric cars, but
some consumers never knew it existed
•Suspect: consumers – guilty
•Consumers couldn’t see the difference
•What really killed the EV was American consumers – they didn’t believe they could
be functional
•Did EVs really not have enough range?
•Suspect: oil companies – guilty
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