Culture from the darker side

It is hard to look at this movie from a “culture” standpoint, it is after all a documentary about the ill fated EV1 from General Motors.

“Who killed the Electric Car” is half the story of a conspiracy by car companies to not “get us further” while at the same time playing a “whodunnit?” about what truly lead to the demise to the Electric Car in California, it then also goes on to look at the Hydrogene powered car, the one “solution” that the current US Administration is favoring and which is sold as the “next best thing”.

The movie is set up like an investigation. It first spends roughly a third of it’s time to show us how great the EV1 was, then it goes on to show us what happened that lead to it’s end and finally it wraps up by recounting the “real” reasons.

I put real in quotes here because I am sure there are people out there who are starting to call for tinfoil hats once the movie is over and I am not trying to tell my conclusions on this one.

The Audience Reactions where mixed, at times laughing loud at some obvious “American fallacies”, my most favourite one must have been towards the end when one of the interviewed people was basically saying:

When you tell the American consumer to be environment sensitive they think you are telling them to turn down the heat or cooling and drive a small car, you know, live like Europeans.

The movie itself is entertaining though, and it is definitely worth looking at this and maybe starting to wonder why in a hundred years we have not managed to come up with a better way to move ourselves around.

Rating: 4/5