Oct 20 2011
Revenge of the Electric Car
After five straight weeks of decline, gas prices are on the rise once more. While car owners are used to the ups and downs of gasoline over the past several years, a growing number of consumers are becoming independent of gas prices altogether – they’re buying electric vehicles or EVs. Only five years after local film maker Chris Paine released his acclaimed documentary, Who Killed the Electric Car, he is promoting his new film, Revenge of the Electric Car. Paine gained national recognition for his first film, which was the third highest-grossing theatrical documentary of 2006. It won and was nominated for a number of awards and has been recommended by Netflix as part of their Top Ten list of “important movies you should see.” Who Killed the Electric Car covered the quiet destruction of General Motors’ all-electric car, the EV-1, complete with scenes of tearful owners watching their test cars hauled away and destroyed in the Arizona desert. But no sooner had the film laid bare what happened, when a new round electric vehicles began to be seriously considered by General Motors, Nissan, and Tesla. The Revenge of the Electric Car is the story of how in just a few short years, during the most economically challenging time in recent history, the electric car has actually become a reality on the road.
GUEST: Chris Paine, writer and director of Who Killed the Electric Car and Revenge of the Electric Car
Revenge of the Electric Car opens this Friday at the Landmark Nuart theater, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, just west of the 405 Freeway in West Los Angeles, CA 90025.
One Response to “Revenge of the Electric Car”
Much of the electricity generated in the U.S. comes from coal. I would like to have some facts presented on the relative carbon foot print of electric cars versus a fuel efficient gasoline engine car.