[ausev] WKTEC Press Screen Time and Date

[Aaron Choate]

Hey Mark,

Thanks!  I can definately be there for this.  I will have info about
AustinEV and electric cars.  Mark Kapner has also asked that I go ahead and
put together a brief description of the EV buyers club idea and I will have
that there as well.

One thing I would like to have is somethng to hand them about what we plan
to do for Friday and Saturday for the public.  Did the manager indicate what
the theater will allow us to do?

Thanks,

Aaron Choate

On 7/20/06, Mark Farver <mfarver at mindbent.org> wrote:
>
> Ok, I have the time and date for the press screening on Monday the 24th
> at 6:30pm. There are no guarentees that any of our members will actually
> get in to see the movie, but the theater general manager said he would
> try to secure a passes for everyone.
>
> Sony has asked for a list of "movers and shakers" in the Austin
> community that they can invite, if anyone has suggestions and email
> address please send them to me off list.
>
> I will not be in town the rest of the week or for the event (sorry).
> Everyone may want to get together this weekend and polish all of the
> details.  A few cars (preferably working so you can take members of the
> press for rides) and materials with background information on our group
> and EVs in general should be the focus.  Feel free to call me on my cell
> if you have any questions (512-587-5639).  Don't forget to dress nice in
> case you end up on camera.
>
> I'll ask the Theater if we can leave any vehicles for the week.
>
> Mark Farver
>
> ---snip---
>
> WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR?
> (Sony Pictures Classics)
> 6:30pm / Monday, July 24, 2006
> REGAL ARBOR @ GREAT HILLS CINEMA
>
> Running  Time: 91 minutes
> MPAA Rating - Rated PG for brief mild language.
> OPENS AUSTIN @ REGAL ARBOR @ GREAT HILLS July 28, 2006
>
> ABOUT THE DOCUMENTARY
>     It was among the fastest, most efficient production car ever built.
> It ran on electricity, produced no emissions and catapulted American
> technology to the forefront of the automotive industry. The lucky few
> who drove it never wanted to give it up. So why did General Motors crush
> its fleet of EV-1 electric vehicles in the Arizona desert? WHO KILLED
> THE ELECTRIC CAR? chronicles the life and mysterious death of the EV-1;
> examining the cultural and economic ripple effects caused by its
> conception and how they reverberated through the halls of government and
> big business.
>
>     The year is 1990. California is in a pollution crisis. The smog is
> so bad that the state is on the verge of returning to the haze days of
> the 1970's brown outs. Desperate for a solution, the California Air
> Recourses Board (CARB) targets the source of its problem: Car exhaust.
> Inspired by a recent announcement from General Motors about an electric
> vehicle prototype, the Zero Emissions Mandate (ZEV) is born.
>
>     It requires 2% of California's vehicles to be emission free by 1998,
> 10% by 2003. It is the most radical smog fighting mandate since the
> catalytic converter. Eager to satisfy the largest car consuming market
> in the world, GM's EV-1 electric vehicle is launched in 1997 with great
> fanfare from California consumers. It was the first perfect car of the
> modern age, requiring no gas, no oil, no mufflers, and no brake changes
> (a billion dollar industry unto itself.) A typical maintenance checkup
> for the EV-1 consisted of replenishing the windshield washer fluid and a
> tire rotation.
>
>     Fast forward to 6 years later... The fleet is dead. EV charging
> stations dot the California landscape like tombstones, collecting dust
> and spider webs. How could this happen? Did anyone bother to examine the
> bodies? Yes, in fact, someone did. And it was murder. The EV-1
> threatened the status quo; the truth behind its murder closely
> resembling the climactic outcome of Agatha Christie's Murder on the
> Orient Express. Multiple suspects, each taking their turn with the
> knife. Automakers, legislators, engineers, consumers and car enthusiasts
> from Los Angeles to Detroit work through the motives, alibis and fallout
> to piece the complex puzzle together.
>
>     WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR? is not just about the EV-1. It's about
> how this allegory for today's oil prices and air quality can also be a
> shining symbol of society's desire to better itself and the world around
> it. For a brief moment in time, we were closer to that dream than we'd
> ever been before, and while that milestone may have been crushed, it has
> not been forgotten.
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