With the disasters of Hurricane Katrina and now Hurricane Ike, many people question whether they are a result of global warming. If this is the case, then what are we doing to decrease emissions and prevent global warming from progressing further? One technology that appears to have the potential to decrease emissions is the electric car and hybrids. I was shocked to learn that General Motors actually invested around $1 billion in the technology and produced an electric car, EV1. However, a little over 1,000 EV1s were produced by GM before it ceased production. A number of reasons have been sighted. They may have thought this car would “cannibalize” their current vehicles. Another is that they were pressured or bought out by the oil companies. They attached video trailer introduces the subject. This month Business Week reported that Ford’s Fiesta ECOnetics, which gets 65 miles per gallon, is being launched. Unfortunately, we won’t see it in the United States. Ford is only marketing it in Europe at this point as it’s too expensive to import. It seems that our government should get involved and perhaps subsidize these cars that save on emissions. As consumers, we need to support this new technology. How could GM have scrapped production of “The Electric Car” that would have made the company a leader in this new field of technology?Sunday, September 14, 2008
Who Killed the Electric Car?
With the disasters of Hurricane Katrina and now Hurricane Ike, many people question whether they are a result of global warming. If this is the case, then what are we doing to decrease emissions and prevent global warming from progressing further? One technology that appears to have the potential to decrease emissions is the electric car and hybrids. I was shocked to learn that General Motors actually invested around $1 billion in the technology and produced an electric car, EV1. However, a little over 1,000 EV1s were produced by GM before it ceased production. A number of reasons have been sighted. They may have thought this car would “cannibalize” their current vehicles. Another is that they were pressured or bought out by the oil companies. They attached video trailer introduces the subject. This month Business Week reported that Ford’s Fiesta ECOnetics, which gets 65 miles per gallon, is being launched. Unfortunately, we won’t see it in the United States. Ford is only marketing it in Europe at this point as it’s too expensive to import. It seems that our government should get involved and perhaps subsidize these cars that save on emissions. As consumers, we need to support this new technology. How could GM have scrapped production of “The Electric Car” that would have made the company a leader in this new field of technology?
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I think this is a great post. I completely agree. I looked at the Who Killed the Electric Car website and the statistics are amazing. Americans say that they want to help the economy and become "eco friendly" yet we are still driving big suburbans and SUV's. It amazes me that people have yet to become eco concious, and I dont think America will really change until there's a big realization.
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