Yesterday at lunch me and my coworkers were sitting around talking about the economy and gas prices and the topic of hybrids came up. One of my coworkers mentions something about a movie he heard about called "Who killed the electric car?" that talks about how electric cars were at one point there were electric cars on the road that got yanked out by the company that made them. He didn't know too many of the details so I went online last night and downloaded it and watched it. Great documentary.

The basic story is, GM released a fully functional electric car called the EV1 in 1996. 1996! The program was eventually stopped in 2003 and all but a few of the produced EV1's were crushed by GM. Why did this happen? You have to either watch the movie or do some research to get the whole story but the jist of it is, California's CARB was too pussy to stand up for their own ZEV mandate and crumbled under pressure from the auto manufacturers and big oil. Once you see the movie and read the facts, you'll be left scratching your head going, "What the fuck? Why am I not driving an electric car right now with these sky high gas prices."


Here are some links:

Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006)
General Motors EV1 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
GM VOLT and Chevy-Volt hoax: By General Motors, which Killed the Electric Car