I don't think anyone is worried about access control - we want these videos
flung as far as possible, to try and counteract the viewpoint that EVs are
slow.

And I think I'd rather trust people's private web servers than yahoo. We're
likely to get the video sent further, faster, and with less advertising,
errors, and random acts of censorship that way.

Has anyone considered using indymedia.org as at least one potential place to
announce our work? I was watching the milling throngs at Jim Hightower's
Rolling Thunder event and listening to them - and _every one of them_ was a
potential EV convert, and just didn't realize it. All of them want cleaner
air, and/or no wars with other countries over oil, and/or no drilling in the
[insert your favorite ecosystem here] - we should have had a few EVs there
and a booth! I thought seriously about asking if I could drive my car up and
park it with the 'art cars', just so I'd have a excuse to explain that there
was another option.

It does make sense - indymedia's crowd is largely way-left, intelligent,
young, and politically-active. Not a bad crowd to get on your side if you're
trying to change something, no?

I've been amazed lately as I talk to people at assorted conventions and
gatherings how prevalant the EV myths are.. that EVs are horribly expensive
(but in production volumes, we have reason to beleive they would be cheaper
than gas cars - look at golf carts!), that EVs just export their pollution,
that EVs are slow (this one seems to be extremely popular), and, most
recently, people who don't understand that EVs are not hybrids. I had to
explain to someone on a network talker _four times_ that I didn't use any
gasoline in my car at all when driving it day-to-day before he understood
what I was saying.

Someone at the SEVA meeting - I wish I could remember who - suggested that
we demo the cars in front of science centers, since the crowds are almost
certainly going to be in the right mood to see and learn about EVs. I think
this is a great idea, but I don't think we should stop there. Using car's
like Neon's buggy, we should make a wonderfully 'edgy' EV video - 6 or 7
minutes - that interlates really good music [for some reason I think techno
would be appropriate, but we could try several flavors] and shots of EVs
moving - fast, slow, and in between - with someone explaining that EV myths
are, literally, myths. Then try and get it spread around the net as far as
possible. It's worth a shot..

I think maybe one of the big reasons we aren't seeing any commercial EVs,
despite the fact that computer and battery and silicon and motor technology
are ready and able, is public perceptions. The public has some mighty funny
ideas about EVs..

S.


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