"Gadget" with his retrofitted electric car
“REVENGE OF THE ELECTRIC CAR” My rating: C+
90 minutes | MPAA rating: PG-13
Few things are as compelling as righteous indignation.
That’s one reason why Chris Paine’s 2008 documentary “Who Killed the Electric Car?” became something of a sleeper hit.
That film dissected the rise and fall of GM’s all-electric EV1, which was leased to hugely satisfied customers (mostly in California), then withdrawn and scrapped when company bigwigs concluded there was no profit in electric vehicles.
“Who Killed…” was ideal for getting people riled up about electric vehicles, fossil fuel pollution, corporate malfeasance and especially the idea of a petroleum-based conspiracy to suppress electric car technology.
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