The buyer is not the owner of the car he/she bought. I am sure, “Tesla” will kill the electric cars idea third time, if they will continue to make cars what after a sale is still controlled by the company. But electric car have died second time. After California regulators saw G.M.s electric car in the late 1980s, they launched a zero-emissions vehicle program in 1990 to clean up the state's smoggy skies. A new documentary by filmmaker Chris Paine charts the promising life and untimely death of the electric car. is a 2006 documentary film that explores the creation, limited commercialization, and subsequent destruction of the battery electric vehicle in the United States, specifically the General Motors EV1 of the mid-1990s. The General Motors CEO who killed the original electric car is now in the electric car business.

Culture & lifestyle editor. Did car companies sabotage one of their most fuel efficient and environmentally-friendly products because it stood in the way of big profits? Future Cell Vehicles are electric cars. April 7, 2017. Now the owner of the “Tesla” car can not resell his own car. Hydrogen is pumped into a tank in the car, just as with gasoline. 4. Who Killed The Electric car Full Episodes; Podcasts; Subscribe; Live; Economy Jan 31 ‘Revenge of the Electric Car’ Director Paine Discusses Renewed Optimism for Vehicle . Who Killed the Electric Car? By Oliver Staley.