PIXAR CARS MOVIE -- originally about an electric car!

WOW guess what I just found out-- CARS -- the Pixar movie was originally going to be about an electric car living in a gas guzzling world. According to www.imdb.com. Listed in the trivia section on the film. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317219/trivia   Here's the link!

Trivia for Cars (2006) 

The character Lightning McQueen is a reference to Glenn McQueen, a Pixar ... The original idea was about an electric car living in a gas-guzzling world. ... www.imdb.com/title/tt0317219/trivia - 29k - Cached - (Hollywood2020 can't seem to track down the origination of that trivia info) A story from the Albany Times Union contains this quote "It's a great juxtaposition," said Roland Hwang, who works on transportation issues as a senior policy analyst for the Natural Resources Defense Council. "I think it's pretty ironic the 'Cars' movie is coming out as we are coming to increasingly realize the dangers of global warming, and the role cars are playing in it."

STAY FOR THE CREDITS OF CARS.....according to IMDB:

While credits roll, a series of short postscript scenes show the
resurrection of the town, like the reopening of the Wheel Well Motel, etc. One of them is the reopening of the drive-in theater, where they show movies of previous Pixar productions but in a car context, like Toy Story (in the marquee it's Toy Car Story), with the actual voices of Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, Monsters Inc., with the voices of John Goodman and Billy Crystal, and A Bug's Life, with the voice of Dave Foley.

Here's a link to the YOUTUBE.com CARS documentary excerpt YouTube - Pixar Documentary - Cars