video reflection- who killed the electric car

This video stars at a solemn ceremony, which shows respect to the high technology and environmental friendly idea vehicle. The electric car was appearing in 1996 California. Last century, the electric car are much popular than gas car because electric car are much quieter smoother and easy to charge at home. Why the gas car developing so fast and occupy the whole vehicle market nowadays？ Because gasoline was cheap at that period and the gas car have a faster speed. Nowadays the disadvantages of gas car are appeared. Every gallon of gas produces 19 tonnes of carbon dioxide. The greenhouse gas mostly as we know is co2 bring out many environmental issue like climate change raise the temperature of atmosphere and huge amount of melting glacier cause waterflood the polluted air also case caused cancers and respiratory problems. This vedio focus on the destiny of EV1, which is a high technology electrical vehicle with high speed and designed with two-seater in 1990.The "Impact", at the Los Angeles Auto Show. That September, the California Air Resources Board mandated major-automaker sales of EVs, in phases starting in 1998. From 1996 to 1998 GM produced 1117 EV1s, 800 of which were made available through three-year leases. Chrysler, Ford, GM, Honda, Nissan and Toyota also produced limited numbers of EVs for California drivers. In 2003, upon the expiration of GM's EV1 leases, GM crushed them. The crushing has variously been attributed to 1) the auto industry's successful federal court challenge to California's zero-emissions vehicle mandate, 2) a federal regulation requiring GM to produce and maintain spare parts for the few thousands EV1s and 3) the success of the oil and auto industries' media campaign to reduce public acceptance of electric vehicles. The vedio also illustrate some other kind of vehicle like hydrogen vehicles, plug in hybrids and other environmental friendly technology use in vehicles like solar power. The vedio group also interviews many people about their thought and they give the feedback of their considerations as consumer. The vedio also discusses the reason of electric car death. There have many valuable experiences for us to consider into our design. Everything will consider the consumer need. As a designer we need show the responsibility of protect environment.