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Shooting The EV1 This extended "making-of" clip at a race track shows how the crew filmed the race between the Hummer and the EV1. The director explains that they wanted to make a professional record of the EV1 before the last ones were crushed in kind of a "last commercial format." A producer from the film once said that GM claimed not to have any footage of the car available (kind of like when they remove people from photographs in Soviet history books). So the filmmakers decided (apparently) to make their own footage. Cool shots of the non-electric camera trucks and driving in windmills too. Tags: ev1 electriccar electric car whokilledtheelectriccar chrispaine paine alternativeenergy energy |
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Stan & Iris: Building A Better World The inspirational Stan Ovshinsky and his wife Iris explain their motivations behind building their Ovonics Solar Cell Factory, which contains the largest thin film solar cell manufacturing machine in the world (longer than a football field). "Solar is back?" director Chris Paine asks. "Solar never went away!" Ovshinsky retorts. "What was back is backward thinking." Stan also makes a great plug for activism and education. Tags: ev1 electriccar electric car whokilledtheelectriccar chrispaine chris paine alternativeenergy energy stanovshins |
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Who Killed The Electric Street Car? In this excerpt from Stephen Talbot's "Heartbeat of America" (1993), Christopher Snell explains how GM conspired with oil & tire companies to kill streetcars in cities all across America in order to create an inferior bus system that would guarantee the sale of tires, gas, and bus parts for an eternity. As Snell explains, "They would go in, buy a street railway system. They'd convert it to General Motors Buses. The General Motors busses would run on Firestone tires. And they'd be fueled by, in the east, Phillips, and in the west, Standard Oil California." In 1947, according to Snell, the Federal Government charged GM and its partners with criminal conspiracy. The result was that GM was fined $5,000 and its top official was fined a single dollar. Compare this to the over 150 billion dollar project currently in the works of trying to build a railway system for Los Angeles today. Tags: ev1 electricstreetcar electric car whokilledtheelectriccar chrispaine paine alternativeenergy energy |
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Do Electric Vehicles Really Create Less Pollution? This roughed out powerpoint compares 4 types of vehicles: 1) Gasoline internal combustion engine (ICE) 2) Hybrid gas-electric vehicle (HEV) 3) Plug-in Hybrid vehicle (PHEV) 4) All-electric vehicle (EV), and the CO2, Volatile Organic Compounds, Carbon Minoxide, and Sulfur Oxides. Although the electric vehicle produces more sulfer oxides than the others (if the power comes from coal), for the other three forms of pollution, the ICE and HEV have much more than the plug-in Hybrid or electric vehicle. One big advantage of the electric car is that you can make clean power yourself (using solar) and that better government regulation can clean up grid power. But even power from coal is used more efficiently in an electric car then oil in a gas car. Tags: ev1 electriccar electric car whokilledtheelectriccar chrispaine chris paine alternativeenergy energy |
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Shooting The EV1 - Dirty Road Remix Music video version of this extended "making-of" clip at a race track shows how the crew filmed the race between the Hummer and the EV1. The director explains that they wanted to make a professional record of the EV1 before the last ones were crushed in kind of a "last commercial format". A producer from the film once said that GM claimed not to have any footage of the car available (kind of like when they remove people from photographs in Soviet history books). So it looks like the filmmakers decided to make their own footage. Cool shots of the non-electric camera trucks and driving in windmills too. Tags: ev1 electriccar electric car whokilledtheelectriccar alternativeenergy energy chrispaine |
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Colette and J. Karen One of the best bits featuring these two energetic characters (and EV enthusiasts) from the movie "Who Killed the Electric Car?" -- In the first part, Colette and J. Karen explain the absurdity of the argument that it's too much trouble to plug in an electric car, likening it to the absurdity of it being to much trouble to plug in a cell phone. Next, they explain their conscious decision for only one of them to participate in the EV1 protest (so that the other could be there to help on the outside, should something go wrong). Sure enough, Colette ends up getting arrested and hauled off to the "hoosegow." Tags: ev1 electriccar electric car whokilledtheelectriccar chrispaine chris paine alternativeenergy energy jkaren |
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Street Theatre Several months after the Hollywood Forever funeral for the EV1 in Los Angeles, a group of San Francisco activists held a dirge for the Ford Th!nk on Market Street. This outtake shows how inspired activists, theaterics, and humor can play a big role in capturing public (and corporate) attention whether in California or in Norway (where this clip ends). Tags: ev1 electriccar electric car whokilledtheelectriccar chrispaine paine alternativeenergy energy |
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Dream Car An extra clip from Chris Paine's "Who Killed the Electric Car." A host of the movie's luminaries answer the question: "Did you have a dream car?" We hear from Phyllis Diller, GM defender Dave Barthmus, Carter Administration's David Freeman, Reagan's Frank Gaffney, and battery geniuses Stan and Iris Ovshinsky. My favorites are Freemans' "I still love my '74 Honda Civic with better gas mileage then a Prius" and Diller's "they don't let me drive anymore." Tags: ev1 electriccar electric car whokilledtheelectriccar chrispaine chris paine alternativeenergy energy dreamcar |
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Hijacking Humanity Official Theatrical Release Trailer New for January 2008 from DivergentFilms! - This is the Official Theatrical Trailer for the new documentary series "The Cause of Effect", and its first Chapter, "Hijacking Humanity". People are waking up to the truth... from Free Energy to their Human Rights, from Secret Societies to Police Brutality, Politicians, Clergy, Executives, and Military leaders should know their secrets are being revealed to more and more people on a daily basis... Ron Paul would be proud of The Cause of Effect - Hijacking Humanity, because anyone who spends time to research a conspiracy, instead of looking for hot chicks or watching south park or playing guitar hero will be less a victim of police brutality than someone isn't as aware. South Park and Guitar Hero are cool and all, but theres more to life than hot chicks... Who wants to live in an elitest Police State or a North American Union? With music from Andromeda http://www.andromedaonline.com , Gordie Bertram, Hexadecibel - http://www.virb.com/hxdb, and Chris Paine - http://myspace.com/chrispaine. Tags: cause of effect hijacking humanity ron paul police movie conpiracy money north american union hot chicks election 2008 |
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Brakes and Tailpipes Really cool. EV1 Service Technician Bob Sexton explains how the electric car's "regenerative braking system" works, so that, when the driver eases up on the accelerator, the engine slows the car down. As a result, an electric car's braking system never needs to be serviced. Many argue that the "disruptor" effect of a car that hardly ever needs parts and service (because it has no engine) threatens the car industry more then anything. Of course, consumers would benefit. Bob explains about all the different mechanisms that a gas engine requires that the electric motor doesn't need, such as tailpipes, mufflers, or a catalytic converter. Trivia - Bob Sexton is married to Chelsea. In fact they met while working on the EV1 program. This is from the film "Who Killed the Electric Car," directed by Chris Paine. Tags: ev1 electriccar electric car whokilledtheelectriccar chrispaine chris paine alternativeenergy energy bobsexton |
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Hallowed Grounds In this video, Bill Wylam, GM/Delco EV1 Battery Chief, talks about the birthplace of the EV1 and his mixed feelings about what happened. In the background you seem to be able to see 2 EV1s in shrouds, a whole generation of technology hidden in some Michigan backlot. This is a "deleted scene" from the "Who Killed the Electric Car" DVD - Directed by Chris Paine. Tags: ev1 electriccar electric car whokilledtheelectriccar chrispaine chris paine alternativeenergy energy |
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Do You Want To Have This Argument On Camera? This seems to be an extended version of a key scene towards the end of the movie "Who Killed the Electric Car," where, deep in the basement of the gallery, Leslie Kendall, Curator for the Peterson Automotive Museum, has a nervous charged arguement with Chelsea Sexton about the reasons the car was killed. Countering Kendall's arguement on range, Sexton mentions that "we already have Lithium-ion batteries today that would take this car 300 miles on the charge." Kendall also argues that charge time is too long. Chelsea challenges this idea saying that you can get a good charge in as little as an hour. She says that you can spend that hour at home instead of having to leave to go to the gas station to pay for gas and that most of the charging can be done while you sleep anyway. (Like plugging in your cell phone at night.) They reach a friendly agreement at the end that "it depends on what your needs are." Tags: ev1 electriccar electric car whokilledtheelectriccar chrispaine chris paine alternativeenergy energy na |
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CAR CRASHES AT 300mph hh Tags: kk |