Documentary

Revenge of the Electric Car

A sequel to 2006's Who Killed the Electric Car?, director Chris Paine once again looks at electric vehicles. Where in the last film electric cars were dismissed as uneconomical and unreliable, and were under multiple attacks from government, the auto industry, and from energy companies who didn't want them to succeed, this film chronicles, in the light of new changes in technology, the world economy, and the auto industry itself, the race - from both major car companies like Ford and Nissan, and from new rising upstarts like Tesla - to bring a practical consumer EV to market.

Release Date : 2011-10-21

Language :English

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Status : Released

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Cast

Character Name : Self

Original Name : Chelsea Sexton

Gender : Male

Character Name : Narrator (voice)

Original Name : Tim Robbins

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (EV1 Driver)

Original Name : Danny DeVito

Gender : Male

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Original Name : Stephen Colbert

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (CEO, Tesla Motors)

Original Name : Elon Musk

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (Director, Iron Man)

Original Name : Jon Favreau

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Character Name : Self - Electric Car Converter (as Greg 'Gadget' Abbott)

Original Name : Reverend Gadget

Gender : Male

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Original Name : Talulah Riley

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Reviews

rsanek

@rsanek

2021-06-23

You can really see Chris Paine's progress as a director when compared to his previous effort, _Who Killed the Electric Car?_ (2006). The production value here is clearly much higher and overall the film is much more entertaining. I liked having the multiple parallel timelines between Bob Lutz, Ghosn, and Musk. The addition of the independent maker 'Gadget' I felt was a bit weird -- it seemed like originally the idea was to provide an insight into people who didn't want to wait for bigco car company to create electric cars, but through misfortunes to Gadget it really became more of a human interest story. Still, that's a small downside when viewing the film as a whole. Would love to see an updated, 2020 version of this timeline from Paine!