Chris Paine, director of Who Killed the Electric Car?, is working on a new movie: The Revenge of the Electric Car. And so I interviewed him about it for Whole Life Times magazine:
GM, the main company featured in Who Killed the Electric Car?, is now in serious financial trouble and asking for a bailout. Could you have predicted this?
We absolutely did predict it. In the movie, Joe Romm [author of The Hype About Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate] says, “This may be the most serious blunder in the history of the automotive industry.” And he was right. The problem is that car companies put everything in gasoline, the SUV, the truck. They had no alternate plan. It was just very bad decision-making.
Read on to find out when the electric car will in fact exact revenge. Chris is the proud owner of a new Tesla, BTW, which he writes about on The Revenge of the Electric Car blog. Apparently, the all-electric sports car is a cop-magnet.
The revenge of the EV is happening right now. Companies like GM are depending upon their EV, the Volt to pull them out of the economic doldrums that they find themselves in, Most other car companies have plans to produce or are close to producing an electric car. The writing is on the wall; “EVs are the future!”
Comment by ZAP Alias — January 6, 2009 @ 2:09 am