Here's another update:
Newsweek hails Maximum Bob as the savior of the electric car! - AutoblogGreen
"Here we can plainly see the errors wrought by Chris Pain's fictitious crockumentary."
"Actually, Bob Lutz didn't save the elctric car - that would be quite impossible without a practical full sized battery pack "
"When the fuel cell costs failed to come down fast enough, the VOLT was a natural
(but only slight) variation that newer, better batteries made possible. This car could not have been built back when the public was avoiding the EV-1 like the plague (Sorry, Chris Paine, but your film is a pack of lies, and you know it). "
Clearly trying to discredit the film. The weird thing was that although a lot of what he says is true (that the Volt is a PHEV, honda and other manufacturers also destroyed EVs, not just GM), there are things that are just outright false. He says the public was avoiding the EV-1 like the plague, which is just not true. Most people didn't even hear of it b/c of limited advertisement, so how can they avoid it if they didn't even know it existed. The waiting list for it was full. Clearly people had interest.
Still trying very hard overall to put out the impression that a practical EV is impossible dispite admitting that we now have "newer, better batteries". Lucky seems like no one in autobloggreen is falling for the trap.