Plugs and Cars
MAY 12, 2009
Tom Hanks' letter to the editor of the New Yorker about his electric car, a Toyota RAV4 EV. Boyer, in his otherwise spot-on piece about the car industry, assumes that I once leased G.M.’s The source of Boyer’s slight inaccuracy may have been the documentary film “Who Killed the Electric Car?,”
Revenge of the Electric Car
MAY 12, 2009
We were delighted to see Tom Hanks’s letter in this week’s ‘New Yorker’ — singing the praises of electric vehicles and name checking ‘Who Killed the Electric Car ?’ Boyer, in his otherwise spot-on piece about the car industry, assumes that I once leased G.M.’s MAY 18, 2009.
Revenge of the Electric Car
JANUARY 21, 2009
The Whole Life Times just published an Interview with Chris : The Electric Car Returns (and This Time It’s Personal). Filmmaker Chris Paine, director of Who Killed the Electric Car? What happens to an electric car deferred? Ask Chris Paine, director of the documentary film Who Killed the Electric Car?
Plugs and Cars
JANUARY 30, 2008
From Who Killed the Electric Car? to Who Revived the Electric Car? Now that automakers seem to be reevaluating plug-in cars, you'd think the era of automakers taking extraordinary steps to keep electric cars from private ownership would be over. The storyline is meant to be changing. You'd be wrong.
Green Cars News
MAY 18, 2009
He wrote a letter to the New Yorker in a bid to set the record straight on the electric cars he has owned over the years. The original piece by Peter J Boyer assumed that Hanks had at one time owned the EV1 briefly touted by GM. I own that car, and it is still driven every day, albeit by one of my crack staff of employees.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
JANUARY 15, 2009
FordFestiva : Brian has a new project going GM/SaturnEV-1 : EV1 owner GM/SaturnEV-1 : Dave and Jeans Chronicles. PlymouthHorizon : RLewits Home Page, car was for sale but he sold it. Volkswagen Rabbit :Zigs Amazing Electric Vehicle VolkswagenRabbit : Bill Dubes Wild Electwik Wabbit VolkswagenRabbit : yduJ drives an electric car!
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 22, 2009
. will be unveiling its IDEA, a 100 miles-per-gallon plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. For years now, inventors and sellers of electric car conversion kits have been blasting traditional automakers for not providing the 100 m.p.g. car when tech-savvy types can configure one in their garage by rewiring their existing hybrids.
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