What uses no gas, emits no pollutants, runs quiet, and is extremely funny looking? Its the EV1 electric car. Never heard of it? Thats because most of them that were on the road have been taken back by the manufacturer and destroyed. A new documentary opening soon from Sony Classics isWho Killed the Electric Car?, is a stunning expose about the EV1 and its demise….and who killed it and why.

I, for one, am not a big supporter of the idea of an electric car. Sure it sounds good in theory; no gas, no noise, no emissions. However, just how do you propose you charge the battery? Well, you have to plug it in. And that right there is the problem I have with it. A driver is still using carbon based energy to power it, however indirectly. Someone (not me, I am no scientist) needs to come up with an alternative non carbon based energy source..or we need to go back to horses and bicycles. Hydrogen? Carbon based. Ethanol? Carbon based. Methane? Carbon based. See the pattern? No matter which technology they come up with today, they are all carbon based. And eventually, there will be no more carbon based energy sources.

Whatever your opinion, check out the movie. Looks promising.

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