Who Killed the Electric Car? (Part 10 of 11)

I have to laugh at the silly logic of this braindead film, produced obviously for the ignorant, the young and the gullible. So many dumb and dumber arguments - my favorite is the one where Ed begley lies thru his teeth about how
” a car that gets you there 90% of the time is good enough.” By my calculations, that would make the EV-1 the most unreliable car ever build - the Yugo is looking pretty good, actually. Andthe Yugo only cost $4,000, about 1/12th the cost of the EV-1. And the Yugo could take you ona trip - the Ev-1 was limited to destinations less than 35 miles away, unless you were willing to gamble and try for 40. The EV-1 was pur, unadulterated crap that had no business being on the roads. It was a frudulent example of what braindead California calls a zero emission car. Funny, I never saw any zero emission electricity, so how can the EV-1 be a zero emission car? And how can GM be faulted for killing the electric car when 1) the EV was DOA - nobody needed to kill it 2) Toyota and Hionda both killed their Ev programs, Honda after a mere 6 months. GM was dumb enough to leave the EV-1 out there for 6 long years, during which never were more than 80% every under lease. Of
5,000 GM customers who expressed interest in an electric car (I was one of them) only 50 actually were stupid enough to actually lease one. The EV-1 was not even remotely viable as private transportation and was exorbiitantly expensive, both at purchase (over $45,000) and battery replacement time (every five years - cost : $25,000). The killer is that the Honda Insight actually produced fewer lifetime emissions than the EV-1, so it was also bad for the environment.
Chris Paine knows all this - he is a shill for a crappy technology and the world’s greatest liar.
he’s also pretty damn ugly. He makes Ed Begley look good, an amazing feat.