Release Date
October 21, 2011 (Limited)
DVD Release Date
January 24, 2012 (Buy on Amazon)
Director
Chris Paine
Writer
Chris Paine, P.G. Morgan
Cast
NA
Studio
Running Time
90 minutes
MPA Rating
Unrated
What is Revenge of the Electric Car about?
In 2006, as many as 5,000 modern electric cars were destroyed by the major car companies that built them. Today, less than 5 years later, the electric car is back... with a vengeance.cDirector Chris Paine ("Who Killed the Electric Car") takes his film crew behind the closed doors of Nissan, GM, the Silicon Valley start-up Tesla Motors, and an independent car converter named Greg "Gadget" Abbott to find the story of the global resurgence of... Full synopsis »
MOVIE REVIEW
Five years ago, filmmaker Chris Paine directed the documentary Who Killed the Electric Car?, a movie I described as "a must-see documentary" and "one of the most frustrating yet captivating films of 2006". At the time, the advent of electric cars had been crushed - literally and figuratively - by the major automobile manufacturers. Full movie review »
