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Title: Smithsonian removes electric-car exhibit
Source: SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER/AP
URL Source: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/natio ... 155AP_Electric_Car_Booted.html
Published: Jun 19, 2006
Author: n/a
Post Date: 2006-06-21 20:25:57 by Esso
Keywords: GM EV1, electric-car
Views: 299
Comments: 18

WASHINGTON -- Just weeks before the release of a movie about the death of the electric car from the 1990s, the Smithsonian Institution has removed its EV1 electric sedan from display.

The National Museum of American History removed the rare exhibit yesterday, just as interest in electric and hybrid vehicles is on the rise.

The upcoming film "Who Killed the Electric Car?" questions why General Motors created the battery-powered vehicles and then crushed the program a few years later. The film opens June 30th.

GM happens to be one of the Smithsonian's biggest contributors. But museum and GM officials say that had nothing to do with the removal of the EV1 from display.

A museum spokeswoman says the museum simply needed the space to display another vehicle, a high-tech SUV.

The Smithsonian has no plans to bring the electric car back on view. It will remain in a Suitland storage facility.

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Out of sight, out of mind. Move along, nothing to see here.

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GM happens to be one of the Smithsonian's biggest contributors. But museum and GM officials say that had nothing to do with the removal of the EV1 from display.

A museum spokeswoman says the museum simply needed the space to display another vehicle, a high-tech SUV.

While I was born at night, it wasn't LAST night.

The guy who made the film was on NOW last weekend. This film is pretty devastating. GM and the others didn't just take back all the electric cars (they were all leased, with no option to buy, although many tried), just to be sure, they had them all crushed. And just to be sure, they literally shredded the remains.

I got a ride in one of them one time. Amazing vehicles, fast as hell, and absolutely silent.

Mekons4  posted on  2006-06-22   22:12:50 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

What's the hubbub over electric cars? They just move the polution from one place to another. Not only that, when you consider the line losses through sending that power from the generating station to your battery charger, they're not efficient either.

Rube Goldberg  posted on  2006-06-22   22:21:45 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

There's a quantitative difference between the pollution released by a few thousand power plants and 300 million autombiles, trucks and buses. There's no question it would cut emissions by a LOT.

Your point is valid; with our population, pollution is inevitable. But electric cars would cut into it and combined with other steps, like reforestation and so on, we could cut pollution at least in half.

Who Killed the Electric Car? delivers a lot of data on this subject, as does Gore's film. The earth is pretty good at healing itself, and a significant reduction in pollution would give it what it needs. But there has to be the reduction, by whatever means.

Most of us will only suffer mild inconveniences from global warming. Those who live on the coasts and places with little water will really suffer. But our grandchildren will REALLY suffer if this keeps up. Imagine a world where water costs more than gasoline. It could happen.

Mekons4  posted on  2006-06-22   22:38:17 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

There's a quantitative difference between the pollution released by a few thousand power plants and 300 million autombiles, trucks and buses. There's no question it would cut emissions by a LOT.

I would hazard a guess that the emissions from a modern automobile are cleaner than what's coming out of the stack at the power plant. If I have a 100 H.P. gasoline powered car then I have 100H.P. under the hood and minus gear train losses I'll get most of that to the wheels. If I have a 100 H.P. electric motor run by batteries I have to store the equivalent in K.W. in those batteries. That is going to come from the Generating station. If I transmit 100 H.P. worth of power from the station to you, you won't receive 100H.P. due to losses in transmission lines (resistance), therefore I will have to transmit MORE than 100 hp to satisfy your demand. Besides that, todays batteries leave much to be desired as well. So, as I see it you would be making more pollution, it just wouldn't be in the city.

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