Sim1Review of Who Killed the Electric Car
June 8th 2007 03:38
Battery car
Any clinical psychologist will tell you the last thing the average male in his early forties needs, is to sit through a documentary on the environment. If anything is going to trigger a mid-life swan dive off the balcony – a dieing planet film will do it.
Who Killed the Electric Car is the exception. I’d have to say it’s the most optimistic environ doco I’ve seen. Sure, all the EV’s used in the making of this film were harmed but in the end we’re left well happy. The level of optimism is high. The go-go is up. The outlook is sweet and we have a future…
We know who the good and bad guys are.
The message: trust not your local car manufacturer – guess what, they don’t care about the planet, just themselves and their Shirley Temple sipping shareholders.
Only force leads to change – that’s how we got seatbelts and airbags.
Recently someone (identity withheld) lent me their Falcon Fairmont. I’m a Falcon fan. The six stacker cd/radio has an error message. I rang my local Ford dealer and if I bring the car in, pay a small fee, prove ownership then they’ll give me the code - all will be fixed.
Pay a small fee.
All because a piece of paper with the code left in the glovebox when the car was made is…is? Like where is the little tag they put on my wrist when I was born? There’s a code on it and all I have to do is punch it in and my hair will grow back.
There’s also the question of proving ownership – but that’s another story.
Anyway, in this film I love the fact that EV’s are today technology but US Government thinking is learning heavily towards Hydrogen. Which is, by all accounts about fifty years away from getting Mum and Dad down to the supermarket in their Town & Country, the clean way. But H is getting the official nod. Why? Who’s behind it? Why don’t they like battery cars?
I love a conspiracy.
Until next time and happy film-making.
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