The Energizer Bunny may keep going and going with his 9-volt battery but General Motors’ fleet of EV1 electric cars weren’t so lucky, though it wasn’t because their rechargeable batteries died.

Around 10 years ago, the few hundred Californians who drove the electric cars eventually had to give the little wonders back to the company, only later to see images of them flattened on top of one another in a deserted part of Arizona as if it was a car burial ground. But why should the public care about some futuristic car that runs on no gasoline or about some possible cover-up? This may seem a little one-sided but so do parts of “Who Killed the Electric Car?” that looks at the events surrounding the birth and death of the EV1.