A film I’m looking forward to with great anticipation is EV Confidential: Who Killed the Electric Car? - it came out June 28th but I still haven’t been able to make the journey to the cinema.

As described on its website: http://www.sonyclassics.com/whokilledtheelectriccar/electric.html

"Filmmaker Chris Paine examines the development and eventual destruction of General Motors’ EV-1, an automobile that required no gas, oil, muffler or brake changes."

Needless to say the film has been controversial - GM has run a sustained publicity campaign trying to manage damage control about some of the allegations in the film.

On their website they claim that:

1. The EV-1 cost 1 billion dollars to develop.

2. There were only 800 leases of the vehicle in a four year period.

3. A waiting list of 5,000 only generated 50 people willing to follow through to a lease.

4. Low demand meant a lack of available parts for repairs.

I remember feeling very angry when GM pulled the vehicles off the road. It had been a development that seemed to signal a significant shift in the policy of one of the world’s biggest car manufacturers.

That anger will make me see the film - but I found GM’s rebuttals of the claims equally interesting.

Has anyone seen the film? Any thoughts? You are encouraged to record them in the comments - or if you want to review the movie I would be more than happy to post it onto the blog.