| View Larger Image | The Engine Counts | DVDStarring: David Hoffman, David Hoffman
Directed By: David Hoffman
| List Price: | $29.95 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | DVD | | Run Time: | 57 minutes | | Format: | Full Screen, NTSC, Color | | Studio: | Varied Directions | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Release Date: | May 31, 2006 | | Sales Rank: | 119,064th |
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Amazon.com
This 1 hour program presents five different electric and hybrid car developers presenting their ideas and also gives a justification for why electric cars and hybrid cars are better. It also looks at the environmental issues involved and at the strengths and weaknesses of the internal combustion engine. It was produced for public television initially and is revealing and insightful.This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 1.0 based on 1 review)
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Interesting piece of history by Charles Hall (Raleigh, NC USA)  1 Stars
October 20, 2007
This 1998 documentary (sponsored by Honda) appears to have been made just before Honda or Toyota introduced their production hybrid cars and before GM decided to crush their EV1 electrics cars (See Who Killed the Electric Car?).
About 30 of the 57 minutes are spent on a very general explanation of smog and the history of the American automobile. The remaining 27 minutes include segments on a guy who guts old Datsuns and sticks in electric motors, a New York cabbie who drives on natural gas, a competition amongst several universities to make a car that pollutes less and gets more miles per gallon, plus interviews with many experts.
Unfortunately, most of the material is now badly dated. You don't hear much about natural gas cars any more because the price of natural gas skyrocketed a few years back (as near as I can recall). You don't hear about any of the mainstream electric cars because they were all destroyed as soon as California backed down on their zero emission requirement.
The only thing "on target" is that the winner of the college competition was a hybrid, the only type of alternative vehicle you or I can go out and buy today, nine years later.
Save your money and go buy "Who killed the electric car". Oh, and BTW, the DVD wouldn't play on my most reliable Sony player, I had to try another.
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