Who Killed The Electric Car? Page #3

It was between 250 $ and 500 $ a month.

I haven't tried accelerating too much,

because there is too many cops around.

I'm afraid I'll get a ticket,

I'll be too excited.

Believe it or not, that sucker goes.

It will take you down the Pacific Coast

Highway so fast you could get a ticket.

I did kind of feel like Batman...

And the way it takes

off out of the cave.

You know, I have this gate that opens...

You'd get inside,

and the console was really near you,

and the lighting is beautiful.

It was quiet.

The car was so fast it looked like it

would outrun its own shadow.

It's an awesome car to drive.

It was the crust of a wave that

we'd thought was coming in.

It was going to change the

way everybody travels.

Other car companies began to comply,

often with conversions of gas cars

but with many of the same

advantages of the EV1.

I'm not mechanical at all but I love dealing

wih my electric car, because it's so easy.

I plug it in at night and when

I need to drive it I unplug

and drive it away.

They're for people who

love the environment.

I said they're for people who love cars.

They're for people who have to go somewhere.

This is amazing.

What you do with this electric car is,

you put the key in,

- and you turn it.

- Wow.

And there's this thing on

the floor called the pedal.

The exciting thing about this is

that the cost of operating a car

is the same as if you're

driving a typical gasoline car.

But the gasoline only

costs 60 cents a gallon.

Going to the gas station is a hassle,

believe it or not. Plugging a car in is not.

The battery, that you charge at home,

gets between 70 and 80 miles per charge,

which for me is more than all the driving that I

need to do in the course of a day.

People started seeing

the cars on the road

and getting a better

understanding of what they could do.

Friends and neighbors

and relatives are saying;

"Hey, that's a neat idea.

I should get one of those."

And we started seeing the

momentum building for this,

and the waiting lists

being created for these cars.

- Cut two.

- Cut two.

I go online to look for other Toyota

RAV4's and I see Toyota RAV4 EV.

And wow!

My whole world opened up.

It's this electric vehicle.

It goes 100 miles to a

charge, blablabla...

I was like

"I didn't know this existed."

"How come I don't know about this?

Have you seen this on tv?"

When I first tried to buy the Honda EV Plus,

I drove in it and said:

"Hey, this is a great car."

The person who was trying to

sell it to us was dumbfounded.

He didn't know what to do.

He'd never leased one before.

Didn't know how to do it,

and it took me six weeks of negotiations

before I was able to get

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