General Motors EV1
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The General Motors EV1 is a subcompact car that was produced from 1996 to 1999 by the American automaker General Motors. A two-door, two-seat coupe, it was the first attempt by a major American automa
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1990 GM Impact concept car
Badging of an EV1
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Who Killed the Electric Car?
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Who Killed the Electric Car? is a 2006 American documentary film directed by Chris Paine that explores the creation, limited commercialization and subsequent destruction of the battery electric vehicl
General Motors EV1
…parts sales, while also blaming the oil industry for conspiring to keep electric cars off the road. Its discontinuation inspired the documentary film Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006), and at the time, GM gained a reputation as the company "that killed the electric car". During the 1970s and 1980s, progress in electric vehicle…
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The film features the symbolic EV1 funeral held at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in 2003 as a protest to General Motors' decision to terminate all EV1 leases and crush the electric cars.
Police guarding cars destined for destruction from "Don't Crush Campaign" protestors (2005)
Crushed EV1s in a junk yard are shown in the film