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Revenge of the Electric Car

ABOUT THE FILM:

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. In REVENGE OF THE ELECTRIC CAR, director Chris Paine 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 electric cars. Without using a single drop of foreign oil, this new generation of automobiles is America’s future: fast, furious, and cleaner than ever. The film follows the major car makers as they jump to produce these new electric models and to be the first, the best, and to win over the public.

2011 | USA | 90 min.

Director Chris Paine
Writers Chris Paine, P.G. Morgan
Producers Jessie Deeter, P.G. Morgan
Editor Chris A. Peterson
Cinematographer Thaddeus Wadleigh
Music David Robbins
Cast Tim Robbins (Narrator), Elon Musk (CEO, Tesla Motors), Bob Lutz (Vice President, General Motors), Carlos Ghosn (CEO, Renault/Nissan), Greg “ Gadget” Abbott (Car Converter), Dan Neil (Wall Street Journal), Thomas Friedman (New York Times), Talulah Riley (Actress), Michelle Krebs (Auto Analyist/Editor), Gavin Newsom (former mayor of San Francisco), Martin Eberhard (Co-Founder, Tesla Motors), Owen Thomas (Journalist), Ray Wert (Journalist), with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jon Favreau, Adrian Grenier, Danny Devito, Anthony Kedis