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DESCRIPTION:WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR? \nPresented by the Sierra Club of Northern 
 Alameda County\n\nSpecial thanks go to Kent Lewandowski for films in this 
 film series on Eco Collapse. \n\nThis 2006 documentary film explores the 
 birth, limited commercialization, and then the death of the battery 
 electric vehicle in the U.S., specifically the General Motors EV1 of the 
 1990s. This documentary film explores the roles of automobile 
 manufacturers, the oil industry, the U.S. government, batteries, hydrogen 
 vehicles, and consumers in severly limiting the development and adoption of 
 this technology. The EV1 was made available for lease in Southern 
 California in the late 1990s, after the California Air Resources Board 
 passed the ZEV mandate in 1990, and after implications of the events 
 depicted for air pollution, environmentalism, Middle East politics, and 
 global warming became known. This documentary details the California Air 
 Resources Board’s reversal of its mandate after lawsuits from automobile 
 manufacturers, the oil industry, and the George W. Bush administration. The 
 film points out that Bush’s chief influences, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza 
 Rice, and Andrew Card, are all former board members and executives of oil 
 and auto companies. Most of the film chronicles GM’s efforts to 
 demonstrate to California that there was no demand for their product. GM 
 takes back every EV1 and disposes of it. A few were disabled and given to 
 museums and universities, but almost all were crushed. GM never responded 
 to drivers of EV1s who wanted to pay the residual lease value of the cars. 
 Several activists are shown being arrested while they attempt to block the 
 GM car carriers taking the remaining EV1s off to be crushed. \n\nBefore and 
 after the films, everyone’s invited to indulge in our Humanist Tea House 
 \n\n$5 donations are accepted \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/12/12/18337316.php
SUMMARY:Who Killed the Electric Car?
LOCATION:Humanist Hall \n390 27th Street \nmidtown Oakland, between Telegraph and 
 Broadway, below Pill Hill \nhttp://www.HumanistHall.net 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/12/12/18337316.php
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