KCRW's Which Way LA
June 29, 2006To deal with the nation's worst air pollution, California's Air Resources Board mandated Zero-Emissions Vehicles in 1990. Six years later, General Motors launched its EV-1 electric car. Six years after than, GM took all the EV-1's back from lease-holders and crushed them out in the Arizona desert. The new documentary film, Who Killed the Electric Car?, calls it a case of murder. Is that all there was or was theEV-1 ahead of its time? We speak with Chelsea Sexton, a former marketer of GM's EV-1, and Dan Neil, the Pulitzer Prize-winning auto critic for the LA Times, both of whom appear in the documentary.
