The ampere strikes back [ Electric vehicles ]
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Abstract
In the summer of 2006 documentarian Chris Paine declared the consumer electric vehicle dead. Done. Over. Finito. In his film 'Who Killed the Electric Car?' the Californian director detailed how pro-oil legislation (tax breaks for SUVs and the scrapping of the California Air Resources Board's zero emissions mandate being just two examples), industry conflicts of interest (doesn't the automobile manufacturers' marketing of electric power as clean imply that their core product is dirty?), and 30-year-low oil prices conspired to keep petrol-powered cars king of the bitumen. The modern electric vehicle was run off the road before it was even out of first gear.