Who killed the electric car?

The documentary "Who killed the electric car?" is about the birth and death or even the rise and fall of the electric car.  The documentary makes us question the way we view and utilise energy as both a renewable resource and a path towards the future to come.  ultimately, we begin to question why did gas cars become more popular than the electric car?

The documentary begins with an overview of how electric cars came to be and the problems that are associated with gas cars.  One of the biggest problem with gas cars is the amount of fumes and pollution that they emit.  Smog caused many people to develop lung legions and was a public health crisis to those who had asthma.  The growing amount of carbon dioxide being emitted into the atmosphere became increasingly alarming, which raised concerns about global warming and the melting of the ice caps.

Many large scale car companies took interest in the idea of the electric car, but soon died out within a matter of years.  There was multiple factors which put gas cars above the electric car such as, the gas car being able to be mass manufactured as opposed to the electric car, and that gas prices at the time were in fact lower than that of electricity.  There have been many speculations as to why the electric car was taken of the market, some say that it was because it was so advanced it had to be taken off to give competitors a chance, while others day that it was due to corporate greed.

The documentary not only clarifies the causes of the birth and death of the electric car, but also its development over the years.  The documentary was very insightful in its discoveries and through showing the evolution of the electric car and its ups and downs.