Posts with the tag of Who Killed the Electric Car

Filming Tesla (2 of 2)

December 12, 2008 – 2:28 pm

Our co-producer continues her account of shooting behind the scenes at Tesla. As we captured key meetings with department heads,  Elon stressed his commitment to ramping Tesla up – and the fact that his role was hands-on. He reminded person after person that no problem or detail was too small. The buck stopped with Elon. [...]

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Filming Tesla (1 of 2)

December 10, 2008 – 4:20 pm
[caption id="attachment_1089" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Tesla Roadsters awaiting final prep and delivery to first owners."][/caption] Let me just give it away now….the first day we filmed this fall at Tesla, we got to see not one, not two, not three, but, and I counted—over 40 production Roadsters in the Menlo Park buildings. There is something about [...]
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Voltageville, USA

November 26, 2008 – 11:55 pm

Sacramento’s News 10 reports on the electric cars of Vacaville, CA.  In 2003 Vacaville, also known as Voltageville, was miles ahead of other cities with over 100 electric cars on the road in both GM EV1s and Toyota RAV4-EVs.  The California Air Resources Board’s 1990 Zero Emissions Vehicle mandate would have required 10% of all [...]

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Chris Paine on the Ron Reagan Show

November 24, 2008 – 6:50 pm

Air America’s “The Ron Reagan Show” aired an episode on November 24th, 2008 about what to do about “The Big Three” automakers.  Chris Paine joined Ron live with his views on the bailout for “The Big Three”, along with thoughts on future innovations in the industry. You can listen to the entire half hour show [...]

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CNN namechecks ‘Revenge of the Electric Car’

November 23, 2008 – 9:35 pm

Check out this CNN segment from Nov 20th 2008.  What next for GM, the Volt, and the director of ‘Who Killed the Electric Car’ …

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Bring Back the EV1 Press Conference

November 18, 2008 – 11:53 am

Friday November 14th, 2008 – GM Training Center – Burbank, CA The Honorable Nate Holden, former California State Senator and L.A. City Council Member, held a press conference demanding General Motors apologize to the American people for destroying the automaker’s EV1 plug-in electric vehicle.  Mr. Holden demanded the EV1′s immediate re-introduction before, or in exchange [...]

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