Coming soon is a new movie documenting the history of the EV1 electric vehicle in California. Starting in the mid 1990's, GM leased over 800 of these vehicles to consumers. The car was received enthusiastically, but eventually the program was suddenly cancelled in 2003.
GM claimed that they couldn't sell enough cars to be profitable, despite long lists of people who wanted to lease them. Amid public protests, the cars were crushed, which only served to fuel speculation that GM intended for the program to fail despite public support. The article in Wikipedia goes into more detail about allegations related to the project cancellation.
[via Clean Break]
Update: A 20 minute interview with the film director is available here as a video or mp3
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