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Cars, Coffee and Conversation Tonight at Tinto
When the first cars hit the road in the early 1900's designs were built around electric motors, since then the gas guzzling combustion engine has taken over, contributing a tremendous amount of pollution at a big cost to everyone. It would seem to make sense then that we bring back the electric car. Well, in the 90's GM tried with their EV1, a zippy car that they leased to customers for 2 years at a time, but by the end of the decade the dream was lost, despite good publicity and high-demand. So what happened? Who killed it? Was it big business? Poor technology? The US government? Or the auto industry?
Who Killed The Electric Car? screened at Sundance and Tribeca last year, now it'll be screening at a cool cafe called Tinto tonight at 7PM on Roncesvalles. While this is the last of 4 documentaries in their program called Food, Fuel and Free Enterprise, if you like your coffee with a side of doc and some good conversation too there'll be more on the way. Tinto has free weekly screenings Wednesday nights.
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For the life of me, I just refuse to believe that in 2007, we, they, whoever, someone, ANYONE, cannot come up with a cleaner more efficient form of energy. Imagine someone being cryogenically frozen 100 years ago and waking up today and marvelling at all of the amazing new technology...he (or she) then asks, "say, it's kind of cold out, how do you heat your homes?" Really? That's how we did it 100 years ago. But what about these new fancy cars you drive, what magic, futuristic elixir do they run on? Gas and oil? Hmmm. Same...we....used. So, I guess you really aren't so advanced afterall...and who is this Imus guy?
So those who claim that electric is "dirty" when used to power EVs, are wrong; you can run two EVs 30,000 miles per year without buying any gas, and with donating excess electric to the grid during peak daytime usage periods.
So those who claim that electric is "dirty" when used to power EVs, are wrong; you can run two EVs 30,000 miles per year without buying any gas, and with donating excess electric to the grid during peak daytime usage periods.