VIDEO REFLECTIONS:Who Killed the Electric Car?

Who Killed the Electric Car? A documentary that investigates the birth and death of the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable living in the future, and is educate and enlighten audiences with the story of this car, its place in history and in the larger story of our car culture and how it enables our continuing addiction to foreign oil.In 1996, electric cars began to appear on roads all over California. They were quiet and fast, produced no exhaust and ran without gasoline.This movies shows how the U.S. was ignorant of hybrids and electrics back then. It's a good thing we're starting to ealize what gasoline is doing to the world's atmosphere. Writer-director Chris Paine informative and entertaining documentary, which makes an explicit link between carbon dioxide emissions and global warming, traces the evolution and eventual marketplace failure of the innovative vehicle. Filmmaker Chris Payne explores the many factors that played into the ultimate failure of the electric car to catch on with consumers, even as gas prices began to skyrocket, in a thoughtful meditation on the increasingly important role that renewable energy plays in modern society. Introduced as a means of providing an alternative to increasing oil consumption and reducing pollution in 1996, the electric car was all but a forgotten memory only a decade later. More, It is really impressive that electrical car exsisted in the different period of times.On the one side, It must have enough reasons of why the electronic car is been designed.Otherwise,there were no market and designers were not even think about to design it. Who Killed the Electric Car? the car company,oil company,consumer,government etc might be guilty. Car company cares more about earning money.Besides, for electric car,it is a kind of big challenge compared with petrol cars.Because for designing an electric car, you need to design a totally new supporting system to it.