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Who Killed the Electric Car? | 
 enlarge | Actor: Martin Sheen
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.94
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Rating:  238 reviews
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 99
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 93 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 15286
UPC: 043396152861
EAN: 0043396152861
ASIN: B000I5Y8FU
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Release Date: November 14, 2006
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Product Description
In 1996 electric cars began to appear on roads all over California. They were quiet and fast produced no exhaust and ran without gasoline. Ten years later these futuristic cars were almost entirely gone. What happened? Why should we be haunted by the ghost of the electric car?SPECIAL FEATURES:12 Deleted ScenesDocumentary: "Jump-Starting the Future"Music Video: Meeky Rosie's "Forever"System Requirements:Run Time: 91 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating: PG UPC: 043396152861 Manufacturer No: 15286
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It begins with a solemn funeral…for a car. By the end of Chris Paine's lively and informative documentary, the idea doesn't seem quite so strange. As narrator Martin Sheen notes, "They were quiet and fast, produced no exhaust and ran without gasoline." Paine proceeds to show how this unique vehicle came into being and why General Motors ended up reclaiming its once-prized creation less than a decade later. He begins 100 years ago with the original electric car. By the 1920s, the internal-combustion engine had rendered it obsolete. By the 1980s, however, car companies started exploring alternative energy sources, like solar power. This, in turn, led to the late, great battery-powered EV1. Throughout, Paine deftly translates hard science and complex politics, such as California's Zero-Emission Vehicle Mandate, into lay person's terms (director Alex Gibney, Oscar-nominated for Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, served as consulting producer). And everyone gets the chance to have their say: engineers, politicians, protesters, and petroleum spokespeople--even celebrity drivers, like Peter Horton, Alexandra Paul, and a wild man beard-sporting Mel Gibson. But the most persuasive participant is former Saturn employee Chelsea Sexton. Promoting the benefits of the EV1 was more than a job to her, and she continues to lobby for more environmentally friendly options. Sexton provides the small ray of hope Paine's film so desperately needs. Who Killed the Electric Car? is, otherwise, a tremendously sobering experience. --Kathleen C. Fennessy Stills from Who Killed the Electric Car? (click for larger image) Writer/Director Chris Paine Blogs About Who Killed the Electric Car
 When Who Killed the Electric Car premiered at the Sundance Film Festival (on the same weekend as An Inconvenient Truth), we wondered whether movie goers were ready for a new kind of 'action film'. Fortunately people jumped onboard and this seems even more true today.
We put this DVD together after the release of the film to include a dozen short scenes we couldn't quite fit into our story. My favorite is one with Stan and Iris Ovshinsky who developed the revolutionary battery technology that powered GM's electric car (and today's Prius). These two brilliant octogenarians took our small camera crew on a Willy Wonka style tour of their inventions including the world's largest thin film solar cell factory. As we stood under a football field size machine in Troy Michigan, I blustered "Is solar power back?" Stan exclaimed " What?! Solar never went away... What was back was backward thinking!" And as his machine cranked out miles of solar cells above us, we knew he was right.
I'm especially glad that the optimistic last scene of Who Killed the Electric Car has proven that we weren't just wishful thinkers when we finished our edit. The clips feature the first glimpse of the ultra fast Tesla electric sports prototype as well the Zenn neighborhood electric vehicle. Both cars are starting to roll off production lines today. And while the State of California (and some car companies) are still gambling on hydrogen fuel cells, plug-in cars are proving to be more environmentally efficient and popular. Early adopters deserve a lot of the credit. Oil companies and the internal combustion engine monopoly may have "killed" thousands of electric cars (EVs) in the 1990s, but EVs are coming back. (Stay tuned for next film...)
I hope you'll find our documentary takes you on a wild ride out of the 20th century and into the 21st. --Chris Paine, Writer/Director
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 Very insightful April 29, 2008
J. M. Sevilla (San Juan, PR Puerto Rico)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
It is a very insightful documentary in regards to electric vehicles and I highly recomend it.
 excellent April 29, 2008
Michelle Curcurato
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
this was a fabulous dvd and informative - people need to wake up and demand a change in their cars!!! no more gas!!!
 This DVD is Propaganda. April 28, 2008
Star Bux
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I think the title of this DVD should have been,
WHY did they STALL the electric car?
According to the US Department of Energy, over 90% of the
coal in the US is used to produce electricity, and more
than half of the electricity generated in the US comes
from coal.
Will the electric car really make everybody's problems go
away? Or will the demand for workers willing to work in a
coal mine, increase? Money is a VIRTUAL concept (what you
call a "penny" is a piece of metal), whereas blood, sweat,
and tears, are very real. I don't think anybody wants to
be a divorced coal miner who is told to pay child and
spousal support to a "family" that lives in another state
and never comes to visit. I don't believe anybody wants to
be treated like an economic resource, to feel barcoded,
like cattle.
The hydrogen economy, based upon fuel cell technologies,
is interesting. For the only way you can save electricity
is by storing it. Storing electricity in the form of
hydrogen gas, is very interesting, and might help the US
break its dependency upon domestic coal production. The
demand for coal in the US might fall dramatically, as the
hydrogen economy develops. But until it does, the US has
enough coal to last them 200 years, according to the
geologists: Whether that is a blessing, or a curse, might
depend on whether or not you are a divorced coal miner who
has been told by a judge not to seek employment elsewhere
in order to keep his ex-wife in "the lifestyle she has
become accustomed to".
Ford Motor Company recently bought the automobile fuel
cell technology that was previously owned by Ballard Power
Systems Inc. Smart move, for "Ford", and maybe everybody
else, but I doubt it.
AMERICA HAS NEVER BEEN A MAJOR IMPORTER OF MID-EASTERN OIL:
During the 1970's, the US imported about 25% of its annual
oil supply needs, but today, the US imports about 60%.
However, half of that imported oil comes from Canada and
Mexico, combined. And so, today, the US gets 70% of its
oil needs met from sources within North America, 40%
domestically (within US borders). Canada's oil sands may
contain more oil than Saudi Arabia's oil fields, and the
Albertan oil sands projects are said to be profitable with
oil at only $45 dollars a barrel.
Who wants to work in Alberta, as a heavy machine operator?
And who wants to find work in Alberta as a waitress, or as
an office worker? Some are denied choices, due to their
gender, race, lack of education, etc. You can be
well-educated but because you are male, or coloured, you
will be told to look "elsewhere". Some are treated like
an economic resource, like black oil.
Ignorant people who are unwilling to do their homework
speak of an "Arab Conspiracy" to hold America's economy
hostage. Is not OPEC a puppet regime controlled by Wall
Street bankers, and who are aided by the US military?
Homeland Security is an international police force with
a legal authority to abduct, torture, and kill them who
oppose the New World Order. Asking questions can be
dangerous.
Extremely important film April 26, 2008
L. Byrd (Chicago)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Very insightful. Both inspiring, and heartbreaking.
It clearly makes the point, that there are alternatives to the
fossil-fuel based vechicles that dominate the world's landscape.
It shows man's intelect at it's best, and his greed at it's worst.
A must for all who truly care about the social, environmental, econonmical
and moral ramifications, which in this film, all relate to an over-dependence on oil products.
Who Killed the Electric Car? April 21, 2008
Mitchell H. Bromwell (Cocoa, FL United States)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Great Movie, that shows how corrupt the big 3 auto makers could be and how it is now coming to roost, with gas prices at $3.50 a gallon. Please let the automotive people know that it is time to return to an all electric car before its to late.
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