Filmpost - Who Killed the Electric Car?

Last Wednesday, some classmates and I watched the film Who Killed the Electric Car?, the film about the development, production, commercialization, conflicts and, destruction of the electric car EV 1 in California. Before watching the film, I had no idea about that kind of car even existed before, but as we were watching, I got to know about the background of the production of EV1's and finally destruction. In 1990, the California Air Resources Board passed the Zero-Emission Vehicle mandate, car companies were required to make electric cars to continue with their gas-powered car production. But, because of continuous pressure from oil companies, suits by car companies and, CARB's reversal of the mandate forced the production of EV 1 to stop. There were many good reasons in development, and also many complicated pressure in destruction as well. After watching the film, my classmates and I had a brief discussion about it, and our common opinion/thought were that we need to become better stewards of God's world and that this world is not ours, but a borrowed one from our next generations. I also think that car companies should pursue on production of electric cars because, we are now facing scarcity of our natural resources and as time goes on, it will only get worse. But in the other hand, I think we first need to find an alternative way that will allow us to replace the position of oil that controls a big part of global economy. Without the back up plan, commercializing electric cars will only bring confusion and chaos. I hope to see the day when we can find out the way to solve this complicated problems well.

Attachments:

http://www.web2carz.com/blog/everything-else/opinion-who-killed-the-electric-car

http://washingtonexaminer.com/node/450531

P.S. - Thanks Cole for hosting the film and cheez-its.