Who killed the Electric Car in California?????? Your thoughts!!!!?

Question

They took brand new Electric Cars and ground them up into a MILLION Pieces.... Could it have been the oil and auto industry or the Bush Administration??????? You must be the change you wish to see in the World..............

Answer 1

Hell YES it was the corrupt gov. establishment, fueled by the oil and auto industry....

They had the electric car THIRTY years ago,

people are STILL brainwashed into believing that the technology 'still has to be perfected',

it's a sad fking joke.

...and I'll take heavy metals isolated in soil rather than carbon emissions going out into the atmosphere and oil spills clogging our oceans,

Gee, I wonder why asthma is at epidemic proportions in only the last thirty years.

Answer 2

The auto industry mostly killed the electric. If I'm not mistaken, it's on it's way back in new forms. Also, lots of people are converting old pick ups into all electric vehicles. Some are getting up to 280 miles per charge. That sure beats the EV's of the 90's.

Answer 3

The Bush admin did indeed get involved in killing the EV program in California. This story is told, and documented, in the movie 'Who Killed the Electric Car.'
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And let's address the absurd anti-EV environmental arguments that keep resurfacing. The pollution around nickel plants is the result of decades of nickel processing - before anyone ever heard of NIMH batteries - mostly for parts that go into conventional cars. And nickel-based batteries are already obsolete for EVs (see new batteries below.) No amount of so-called 'battery pollution' could compare with the drilling. pumping, shipping. refining, and burning of gasoline, anyway.
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It doesn't matter if powerplants burn dirty fuel either. EVs are many times more efficient than gas cars (they use less fuel per mile, which is why they are cheaper to drive) which means less pollution per mile, regardless of what gets burned. (See sources below.)
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Pure EVs are also very long lived. Electric motors have only ONE moving part, and can last decades with no service. My own EV was built in 1981, and has all the original motor parts.
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Now, for some good news. Electric cars are far from dead. Here's one of the latest EVs:
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http://phoenixmotorcars.com/models/fleet.html
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The Phoenix electric pickup truck - using new, advanced Altairnano batteries (based on research from MIT) - can:

-Travel up to 250 miles per charge
-Carry 5 passengers plus cargo at 95mph.
-Charges batteries in as little as TEN MINUTES.
-Has batteries that last 250,000 miles (never need replacement.)
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Yes indeed, it is a real car, being built right now for fleet use. PG&E is one of the customers. It's not alone either. See the sources below.
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Answer 4

ok one greater time, the action picture makes a conspiracy of huge oil, and the government forcing California Air supplies Board to alter the regulation that required vehicle companies to offer and sell electric powered automobiles. The action picture did no longer provide help to recognize that Ford, Chrysler and Toyota all had electric powered autos on the marketplace in California and you do no longer hear lots with regard to the Chevrolet electric powered vehicle do you? the shopper killed the electrical powered vehicle, the call for wasn't there to make the vehicle rewarding for GM to offer. Many a vehicle has been killed by way of fact the call for wasn't large adequate to make it rewarding to offer them, and the EV1 replaced into certainly one of them. additionally the EV1 replaced into commencing as much as have protection subjects that replaced into specially by way of a short R&D time. GM replaced into watching presenting section for the subsequent 20 years to a limited run vehicle, that replaced into becoming dangerous tocontinual. So with a limited call for, becoming legal accountability GM made the right determination to kill the undertaking and weigh down the automobiles to cut back their legal accountability. The action picture did no longer provide help to recognize that the two. BTW Ford replaced into going to do the comparable yet observed the out cry from a small yet vocal team and desperate to no longer weigh down their autos. Ford's truck additionally had the convenience that it replaced into rather a Ford ranger so as that they did no longer might desire to rigidity too lots approximately presenting areas. so some distance as extensive type 2 is going, it does no longer be any diverse if the EV1 had develop right into a success or no longer, it would be merely one greater vehicle interior the line up. some human beings might purchase them so does no longer, yet by way of fact the EV1 value greater desirable than a Cadillac they does no longer have offered very many, nor might they have offered many interior the mid-west have been the temperatures get very chilly. So the EV1 at superb might have been a nitche vehicle that served a limited variety of human beings.

Answer 5

Wow. Is it any surprise somebody who accuses Bush of grinding up electric cars lives in California? People like you ruin that state for people like me, you know the kind that accuse people of doing things only when there's at least some modicum of proof.

I find it very dubious and unlikely that electric cars were ground up into a MILLION pieces for absolutely no reason.

By the way, electric cars are worse for the environment than traditional cars are. Anybody who thinks they're a good idea should look at those pictures of the landscape around the Prius battery factory. Nothing grows within ten miles of the place. NASA used it to test moon rovers. Processing the nickel to make the batteries uses so much energy and produces so much pollution that it completely offsets what it saves by not burning gas. They also have shorter life spans than traditional cars so you have to replace them quicker.

If you really want to make a change, why don't you start thinking for yourself instead of parroting what other people say? I am so tired of hearing these Bush-oil conspiracy theories. Just because Bush worked in the oil industry does not make him a criminal. Clinton was a career politician. Does that mean everything he was engaged in a perpetual conspiracy to further the cause of big government? If you aren't quite sure, it doesn't.

Shut up. Sit down. And quit trying to tarnish peoples' reputations because you don't like them.

Answer 6

Big Oil (and yes, I've seen the movie). Those who were culprits (including CARB) buckled under the enormous pressure of the Oil companies who naturally are afraid of the promise that alternative fuels present. They are afraid of losing control of the distribution chains, and all of the business related to the internal combustion engine.

My thoughts? In a country with so many intelligent, educated people is it truly possible that nobody has invented a better mouse trap since Ford? Nobody has come up with a way to make energy from something more ubiquitous than fossil fuels? Nobody has found incentive to use something found in large quantities outside of the Middle East?

I smell a conspiracy, with a hint of collusion.

Answer 7

Both together...you should watch the movie Who Killed the Electric Car.

Answer 8

There were a lot of factors that came together at the same time that killed the electric car at that time. No it wasn't Bush or at least if he had anything to do with it it wasnt only him.

Answer 9

The electric car killed itself. Not enough people wanted them so it was not economical for the companies to produce them. Remember, it takes just as much energy to move an electric car as a gas car, it just gets its charge from another source. The gas companies still win.

Answer 10

Auto industry... Bastards!