I don't know how many of you heard about the movie "Who Killed the Electric Car", but it was basically a GM bashfest over their failed Saturn EV1 electric car program. I found an interesting article this morning about that movie. The idea for the article came when the author was speaking to a Toyota exec who leaned across the table and animately criticized the movie, defending GM.
The film director, upon being questioned, admitted the film's bias.
The fact of the matter is that no one wanted to buy them. Toyota, in fact, heavily subsidized their RAV4 EV and sold a whopping 342 over a two year period. So GM's just getting picked on because of it's high profile. Sounds just like another high-profile computer software company a few years ago. Any thoughts?
Here's the article.
Quote:
"The movie 'Who Killed the Electric Car?' was terribly one-sided," Ernest Bastien, Toyota Motor Sales vice president for vehicle operations, said intensely. "It was not balanced at all."
The film director, upon being questioned, admitted the film's bias.
Quote:
"We let Toyota off the hook for how they subverted the program" to sell electric cars because GM had a higher profile, director Chris Paine told me over the phone Sunday.
The fact of the matter is that no one wanted to buy them. Toyota, in fact, heavily subsidized their RAV4 EV and sold a whopping 342 over a two year period. So GM's just getting picked on because of it's high profile. Sounds just like another high-profile computer software company a few years ago. Any thoughts?
Here's the article.