The video Who Killed the Electric Car? is a documentary talks about the rise
and fall of electric cars. The electric car came out in 1996, it is much
cheaper and more environmental friendly than the existing cars burning gasoline
and the hybrid cars, however, it is not widely used all over the world at last
for some reasons. The director showed us that the electric car is murdered
through his investigation.
This film shows the born of the world’s
first electric car- EV1 and its mystery fall. EV-1 played an important role in
renewable resources, it will be the major support of auto motive industry in
the future world and it will have a great influence on both the economy and
culture. The movie investigated into the auto manufactory, engineers, consumers
and the auto mobile lovers in Los Angeles; analyze from the motivation to the evidence
and finally got the truth: the fall of the electric car is actually a murder as
it threated the benefit of the oil companies. Electric cars can save 100billion
gallon of oil every year if everyone buys electric car, that means the oil
companies won’t get the benefit the used to get.
I was shocked after knowing the real reason
why electric cars cannot get widely used is because of the selfish human beings
who only consider their own benefits but not the environment. They were risking
the whole world for that.
However, oil is non-renewable resource, so
it will finally be used up by human beings, which makes electric car more suitable
for the world. I believe that electric cars is the trend of the future of
automotive, and transportations using clean energy will finally replace the
existing cars, the trend of industrial design will consider more on maintain a sustainable
environment.
