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- 2006
- PG
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 32 m
- 2006
- PG
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 32 m
Summary This documentary chronicles the life and mysterious death of the GM EV1, examining its cultural and economic ripple effects and how they reverberated through the halls of government and big business. (Sony Pictures Classics)
Directed By: Chris Paine
Written By: Chris Paine
- 2006
- PG
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 32 m
- 2006
- PG
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 32 m
Who Killed the Electric Car?
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Summary This documentary chronicles the life and mysterious death of the GM EV1, examining its cultural and economic ripple effects and how they reverberated through the halls of government and big business. (Sony Pictures Classics)
Directed By: Chris Paine
Written By: Chris Paine
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 28 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 28 Critic Reviews
70
89% Positive
25 Reviews
25 Reviews
11% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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Who Killed the Electric Car? makes you angry, and also sad, to live in a country where innovation could be contrived into an enemy.
A murder mystery, a call to arms and an effective inducement to rage, Who Killed the Electric Car? is the latest and one of the more successful additions to the growing ranks of issue-oriented documentaries.
There is an element of murder mystery and an edge of conspiracy thriller to Chris Paine's documentary about the rise and fall of General Motors' EV1 (Electric Vehicle 1).
Above all, the film is an extended love letter to the EV1, a sleek GM electric marvel that, by Paine's reckoning, marks the single greatest innovation in human technology since the wheel.
Fascinating documentary.
Paine does offer something of a heroine in Chelsea Sexton; the attractive EV1 sales specialist was laid off in 2001, became an EV1 activist and is now executive director of Plug In America.
The real question is why this purportedly impassioned documentary investigation of a great subject--the culture's conspiratorial dismissal of eco-friendly alternatives to the gas-guzzler -- would assume such massive viewer disinterest that it coats the pill with C-list celebrity NutraSweet, including Martin Sheen voiceovers -- that would sound unforgivably hackneyed even on basic cable.
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Production Company
Plinyminor,
Electric Entertainment,
Papercut Films
Release Date Jun 28, 2006
Duration 1 h 32 m
Rating PG
Genres
Tagline 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 cars were destroyed.
Awards
Critics Choice Awards
• 1 Nomination
Writers Guild of America, USA
• 1 Nomination
Alliance of Women Film Journalists
• 1 Nomination
