[ausev] Austin EV Buyers Club website

[Mark Kapner]

We just got the new website up for the Austin EV Buyers Club. It's www.Austinevbuyers.org

Chuck Wright is hosting the site. We're going to add a feature to collect contact info for interested visitors who want to be on our list. 

I'd like to do everything possible to publicise the site to people in Austin who are potential buyers of EVs.

Mark Kapner
kapnerm at earthlink.net
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Aaron Choate 
  To: AustinEV announcements list 
  Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 8:58 AM
  Subject: Re: [ausev] WKTEC Press Screen Time and Date


  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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