[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >In a message dated 7/3/06 6:19:18 P.M. Central Daylight Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >Opens in the Bay Area this weekend so I'll see next week (maybe if it >opens at the local Cinearts where I've seen the trailer). > >new.morning wrote: > > > >>Of course GM was the source of many of those electric cars around 1996 >>-- cited and pictured in the blurb. Does the Sony film suggest GM, >>beyond ending its 100 million + research, did so for nefarious >>reasons, other than economics? -- that is that the electic car was >>not going to make it in the then current climate of oil prices, >>jump-start incentives, and consumer preferences? (It was a cool car-- >>acceleration was unworldly.) >> >> >> > > > >So why haven't the Japanese developed an electric car. Aren't they more >dependent on foreign oil than we are?Seems anything GM or Ford can do, Toyota >can do better. > > From the trailer I don't think the movie is so much about electric cars *being* the answer but being *an* answer. And it is about why they project was dumped. GM and Ford are just slow moving dinosaurs probably about to go extinct.
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