Who Killed the Electric Car?

00:00:30 Ladies and gentlemen, we are gathered here today

00:05:16 If lung disease from air pollution is unimportant

00:08:56 the electric vehicle technology became the technology

00:12:54 They're for people who have to go somewhere.

00:16:06 And they got all these names removed from the list.

00:19:35 How does it go, you ask yourself?

00:23:04 electric vehicle advocates thought they had a sympathetic ear

00:26:26 a new hydrogen refuelling station. At LAX for example.

00:30:16 When GM introduced the EV1

00:34:48 It's so sad.

00:38:55 were not the only electric vehicles in jeopardy.

00:42:40 We're making sure that GM doesn't sneak out their cars in the back lot.

00:46:16 Never. That's what I'm trying to say. It's totally under the scope of the radar.

00:49:34 And to us, putting it into a car

00:53:20 people will snap over, and that's what the oil companies fear the most.

00:57:01 along with several quarts of oil every time.

01:01:09 the federal government also sued California to stop the electric car.

01:05:16 So they kept the junkie hooked up, in other words.

01:09:05 "Look, we can't produce these increasing numbers of the

01:12:06 Have you ever been to a dog race?

01:15:40 Just because a lot of people want it to work, it's no guarantee.

01:21:36 It's an amazing performance for any car, not just an electric car.

01:24:54 and that it is avilable to us today.

199:00:04 stage one smog alerts.