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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

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CATEGORY: DVD
THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: 2006
MANUFACTURER: Sony Pictures
MPAA RATING: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
FEATURES: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
TYPE: Documentary, Movie
MEDIA: DVD
# OF MEDIA: 1
UPC: 043396152861

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Business As Usual Struck Again
Electric car: cleaner, healthier for our lungs. Improvement on emission of dangerous global warming gasses. QUIET. Expensive like all new technology is *at first* and would have come down in price. <
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>So what happened to it? Short-term profits won out over anything, even more profits, that could be considered long-term. Somehow industry has got to start being able to think beyond the next 3 business quarters, or we are all doomed. Maybe execs need to learn how to use their secretaries' spread sheets and calendars to be able to think about what might happen in five years instead of five days? I don't know what the solution is, but I do know that the current transportation infrastructure in the US will not be supported forever by oil that is not located in our territory and by burning fuel that is moving the world towards the brink of climate catastrophe anyway.


Eye opener!
Excellent Documentary! <
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>I have to admit all this EV-1 stuff is breaking news to me. It might as well have been scrolling on the bottom of the screen on a CNN channel. I am not ashamed to admit it. It just goes to show how ignorant and brainwashed we as a society are. Wake up people!!


A Sight Into What Have And What We Can Become
"Who Killed the Electric Car?" is a fantastic film that needs to be shown on all the major television networks. Whether you've read extensively into the impacts of global climate change and would like to see an environmentally safe vehicle, or youre looking for convienant transportation, you will find that electric cars like the EV 1 is something that, had it been better promoted and accepted by GM throughout the 1990's, provides a solution to the issues of global warming, oil dependency, the economy, labor, and consumer savings throughout the future, or at least a start. The content of this film should ignite anger and frustration within every person with common sense and the hope for a better future in the American energy policy. <
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>The actions of those unwilling to invest in the future debunks the theory of a free market, competition, conservation of resources, and fiscal policy. The actions of getting rid of electric cars is taking competition from the market, killing competition by denying willing buyers, who providing demand for their sources, of a good product, and wasting materials often used in motor vehicles that could be best used somewhere else. By simply shifting a product line from Suburbans to electric vehicles throughout the future, the automobile companies could profit from the trade of international business, which would continue to shape the economies of countries like China while limiting the pollutants released into the air. While I am not an economist, I see the potential successes of producing vehicles like the electric car. <
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>Hopefully in America, especially with the change of power within Congress recently, our political leaders will be able to push effective and smart energy policies through the legislative process. I have hope that the deregulatory ideology of the Republican leaders in the federal government over the past twenty-six years will provide a much needed change for America. For instance, I have hope that the significant change in the Environmental Committee chair, from Sen. James Inhofe, who has called global warming a "hoax", to Sen. Barbara Boxer, an environmental champion, will radically change the policies of deregulation and handouts to powerful industries that dont produce to policies that will make sense for the future and push for conservation and alternative fuels. "Who Killed the Electric Chair?" provides a symbol of what we as a nation have become, and what we as a nation can become.

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