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"Who Killed the Electric Car?" B. Peg 11-06-2006
Posted by B. Peg on November 6, 2006, 9:09 pm
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To appear at your local "Hollywood Video" 11-14-2006.

http://www.hollywoodvideo.com/movies/movie.aspx?MID=142102&LF=MB

fwiw.

B~



Posted by Michael Pardee on November 8, 2006, 3:17 pm
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> To appear at your local "Hollywood Video" 11-14-2006.
>
> http://www.hollywoodvideo.com/movies/movie.aspx?MID=142102&LF=MB
>
> fwiw.
>
> B~
>
>

Our local theater, "Movies at the Mall," is one of the eight theaters where
it is still playing. I think it's ironic the movie withered (total gross
still under $1.7M) for the same reason the electric car did... lack of
interest.

Technical qualities don't a success make. I was using OS2 Warp when
Microsoft still offered Windows 3.1. It was so much better, but eventually I
gave up and switched to Windows 95 when the drivers I wanted for OS2 just
didn't appear. It wasn't a conspiracy; it was the market.

For perspective, the Prius isn't even the first of the modern production
hybrids - remember the Insight. What the Prius had was "the whole package."
I wouldn't have bought a 2-passenger coupe for $25K (now $19.3K, I guess). A
five passenger hybrid for $20K, with the appointment level Toyota so cannily
chose... absolutely.

Mike



Posted by DayOff53 on November 19, 2006, 6:04 pm
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B. Peg wrote:
> To appear at your local "Hollywood Video" 11-14-2006.
>
> http://www.hollywoodvideo.com/movies/movie.aspx?MID=142102&LF=MB
>
> fwiw.
>
> B~

My wife and I got so worked up over the movie that we got 4 copies for
our friends.

Dave


Posted by bob on March 4, 2007, 10:53 pm
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> To appear at your local "Hollywood Video" 11-14-2006.
>
> http://www.hollywoodvideo.com/movies/movie.aspx?MID=142102&LF=MB

watched the movie last month, bought a prius last wk. the dealership told me
that tom hanks bought a scion xB and had it converted to totally electric
for something like $75k.

bob



Posted by Elmo P. Shagnasty on March 5, 2007, 6:42 am
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> watched the movie last month, bought a prius last wk. the dealership told me
> that tom hanks bought a scion xB and had it converted to totally electric
> for something like $75k.

At what cost to his carbon footprint?

Those people are crazy. They don't know how to look at the big picture.
They know only how to make an immediate statement.

If he truly cared, he wouldn't have spent the carbon footprint doing the
conversion.


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