The electric car has always seemed to be, at least to me, the automobile of the future. With gas prices painfully high, and the whole fumes into the atmosphere issue, electric cars seem more and more appealing. This article was about a guy who made a documentary called “Who Killed the Electric Car?” in 2006, and the same man has a new documentary entitled “The Revenge of the Electric Car” which is playing in select hipster theaters right now. The article has three main players in the war to create the best electric car, Chevy's Volt, Nissan's Leaf, and the new company Tesla Motors car. I would like to ask, where is the Toyota Prius in all of this? Wasn't that the hip electric car that started it all a while back, and doesn't Toyota have around four different types of Prius' for sale these days, including one to rival a SmartCar in lack of size? I think he should have definitely mentioned those folks.
The author was mostly informative during this article. He stated a lot of facts, and gave the good and bad side to the electric car. The article is meant for a wide audience, as there is a lot of background information on the car companies and their CEO's and what direction he thinks the companies are headed in. He also companies the two documentaries made, and presents the information in an unbiased way. But he does make a sort of peculiar remark - “My 7-year-old son, who knows more about this issue than I do, forcefully disagrees with Paine on that one.” I thought was an odd thing to say. It sort of made the author sound like he didn't really know what he was talking about. It was a strange thing to put in there.
The article:
http://www.salon.com/2011/10/21/revenge_of_the_electric_car_why_the_automakers_went_green/singleton/
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