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Synopsis: With gasoline prices approaching $4/gallon, fossil fuel shortages, unrest in oil producing regions around the globe and mainstream consumer adoption and adoption of the hybrid electric car (more than 140,000 Prius' sold this year), this story couldn't be more relevant or important. The foremost goal in making this movie is to educate and enlighten audiences with the story of this car, its place in history and in the larger story of our car culture and how it enables our continuing addiction to foreign oil. This is an important film with an important message that not only calls to task the officials who squelched the Zero Emission Vehicle mandate, but all of the other accomplices, government, the car companies, Big Oil, even Eco-darling Hydrogen as well as consumers, who turned their backs on the car and embrace embracing instead the SUV. Our documentary investigates the death and resurrection of the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable living in our cou
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Chris Paine
Production: Sony Pictures Classics
  4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.7
Metacritic:
70
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
PG
Year:
2006
92 min
$1,324,335
Website
981 Views


electric-type car,

two-seater, slick styling, and that

we can make a business out of it.

It was interesting.

Program manager called me and said:

"Would you like to be on the

electric vehicle program?"

"That's fine. What do

you want me to do?"

And he said:
"Develop demand for

electric vehicles worldwide."

I said:
"Do you have any instructions?"

He took a blank piece of paper,

shoved it in front of me and said:

"No instructions. You go figure it out." At

that point I joined the program.

It got a lot of interest

flowing in the industry,

but it did something else.

It caught the attention of the

California Air Resources Board.

California's Air Resources Board,

or CARB as it was known,

saw the electric car as an

opportunity to solve another problem.

Since GM had already announced

that they were going to

produce an electric vehicle

before we even adopted the mandate,

the electric vehicle technology

became the technology

of greatest promise.

Knowing a modern electric

car was now possible,

California regulators took a bold

and unprecedented step.

They passed the Zero Emissions Vehicle mandate.

The mandate was simple.

If automakers wanted to

continue to sell cars in California,

some of those cars would have

to be vehicles with no exhaust.

They've decided to ramp it up.

They said 2% in 1998, 5% in 2001

and 10% in 2003.

For the car companies there

were only two options;

Comply with the law or fight it.

In the end, they would do both.

The electric car is here.

The EV1 from General Motors.

The Impact prototype became the EV1,

the first modern electric

production car

from a major US car company

in nearly a century.

GM chose its Saturn division to market

it in California and Arizona.

I'd bought my first Saturn at 17,

and they'd said;

"Do you want to come work here?"

I thought it would be a good college job,

I'll put myself through college this way.

It turned out I loved the cars

more than what I was studying,

and three years later they announced

the EV1 program and I jumped on it.

There were the 13 of us, most of

whom were mid-twenties, unattached,

single, no kids - willing to do

anything for a little money.

We all handled a particular

geographic region.

Mine started as Los Angeles,

and I've worked with everybody:

from engineers and students to celebrities.

I say, I say, I say Alexandra !

I have a picture of myself...

just hearing the Saturn song...

Just being so happy!

I had one of those early EV1's,

and I used it here in the capital.

I love the car.

It's everything Americans want in a car.

They're cool, fast, sexy.

I got in the car and felt like...

It was fairly reasonably priced.

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Chris Paine

Chris Paine is an American filmmaker. His most notable works to date as director are the documentaries Who Killed the Electric Car? and Revenge of the Electric Car. more…

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