|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
Documentary /
Music
|
|
Release:
|
|
|
Director:
|
Chris Paine
|
|
Actors:
|
Colette Divine,
Reverend Gadget,
Dave Barthmuss,
Jim Boyd,
Alec N. Brooks,
Alan Cocconi,
John R. Dabels,
Martin Sheen,
Ed Begley Jr.,
Phyllis Diller
|
|
Duration:
|
92 min.
|
|
Rating:
|
(7.7/10)75.5
|
|
Plot Summary:
|
In the 1990s, following California's concupiscence of the Zero Emission Vehicle mandate, American companies began producing energized cars for mainstream consumption. GM's EV1, which was by all accounts quiet, hunger strike, and predisposed to of driving up to 80 miles on one direct blame, acquainted with no gasoline and very soon developed an intensely loyal following in California. But even as its popularity grew, car manufacturers were fighting the mandate; it was overturned, and by 2005 justified about every unwed EV1 had been recalled, crushed, and shredded. GM put its resources into t... he Hummer a substitute alternatively. WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC Motor? looks at the tangled web of interests behind the car's untimely demise, laying out convincing cases against the auto trade, big grease, corrupt federal and state governments, and consumers themselves. Chris Paine's directorial come out is not principally stylish, but it is effective. He leads viewers through the twisty intricacy of politics and profit that surrounds the predominant story, fetching yet to dwell on the snappish tie that myriad of the cars' drivers still feel for them. Appropriately, the is narrated by Martin Sheen--the codification for many Americans of socially conscious leadership, thanks to his many years on THE WEST WING--and features interviews with a motley array of celebrities from Mel Gibson to Ed Begley, Jr., but the real famed of the movie is the gen car itself and all that it stands for. The fog is not unusually flaxen-haired or balanced; greatly little cover time is staunch to criticism of electric cars, and the only person on camera defending the oil companies is a singularly gooey and unappealing spokesperson from whom most viewers would be unwilling to go for a habituated to car of any variety. But it certainly succeeds as a energizing, if on occasion depressing, call to awareness and action.
Read more Less
|
|
Tags:
|
|
Who Killed the Electric Car?
In one go upon a over and over again, an fellow of vein tried driving across England in a 15-year-grey Citroen rigged to hotfoot it on...
|
