Pay No Attention to That Car Parked (behind those curtains) in Suitland
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
General Motors Corp. will initially lease, but not sell the EV1, the company's electric car, shown in this undated handout file photo, company officials said Tuesday, Aug. 27, 1996. (AP Photo/HO)
WASHINGTON -- Just weeks before the release of a movie about the death of the electric car from the 1990s, the Smithsonian Institution has removed its EV1 electric sedan from display.
The National Museum of American History removed the rare exhibit yesterday, just as interest in electric and hybrid vehicles is on the rise.
The upcoming film "Who Killed the Electric Car?" questions why General Motors created the battery-powered vehicles and then crushed the program a few years later. The film opens June 30th.
GM happens to be one of the Smithsonian's biggest contributors. But museum and GM officials say that had nothing to do with the removal of the EV1 from display.
A museum spokeswoman says the museum simply needed the space to display another vehicle, a high-tech SUV.
The Smithsonian has no plans to bring the electric car back on view. It will remain in a Suitland storage facility.
...NOTE: Just what sort of alternative "reality" does one find themselves these days? There are times I think I can take no more of it,then something like this flies under my radar and I am compelled to share it.
AN SUV!!!??? Jeeze!
Yesterday I went to see "Spamalot" (A must see), I really needed to laugh....
Still slogging thru all the techno-crap to be able to broadcast AND archive my :Sedition Babe" radio show on live365. It has been far more daunting than I had expected.
General Motors Corp. will initially lease, but not sell the EV1, the company's electric car, shown in this undated handout file photo, company officials said Tuesday, Aug. 27, 1996. (AP Photo/HO)
WASHINGTON -- Just weeks before the release of a movie about the death of the electric car from the 1990s, the Smithsonian Institution has removed its EV1 electric sedan from display.
The National Museum of American History removed the rare exhibit yesterday, just as interest in electric and hybrid vehicles is on the rise.
The upcoming film "Who Killed the Electric Car?" questions why General Motors created the battery-powered vehicles and then crushed the program a few years later. The film opens June 30th.
GM happens to be one of the Smithsonian's biggest contributors. But museum and GM officials say that had nothing to do with the removal of the EV1 from display.
A museum spokeswoman says the museum simply needed the space to display another vehicle, a high-tech SUV.
The Smithsonian has no plans to bring the electric car back on view. It will remain in a Suitland storage facility.
...NOTE: Just what sort of alternative "reality" does one find themselves these days? There are times I think I can take no more of it,then something like this flies under my radar and I am compelled to share it.
AN SUV!!!??? Jeeze!
Yesterday I went to see "Spamalot" (A must see), I really needed to laugh....
Still slogging thru all the techno-crap to be able to broadcast AND archive my :Sedition Babe" radio show on live365. It has been far more daunting than I had expected.
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