Who Killed the Electric Car?

Who Killed the Electric Car?

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Who Killed the Electric Car?

Alexandra Paul, Chelsea Sexton, Colette Divine, David Freeman, Ed Begley Jr

An investigation into the death and resurrection of the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable living in our country's future.

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  • September 2, 2009
    I thought it was pretty interesting and well put together.
  • June 26, 2008
    Who Killed the Electric Car starts off interesting but after about the first 20 minutes just generally keeps retreading the same 3 or 4 points. Martin Sheen's narration doesn't quite fit either--it's like he had a mouthful of Werther's Originals in his mouth while he recorded it....( read more) This documentary is definitely informative when it doesn't dwell on annoying activists who love the sound of their own voices. The United States as a country is poisoned by the greed of the oil and automotive industry, we get it. It sucks but stalking a car you used to drive in a losing battle is just creepy and weird. The Phyllis Diller bit at the beginning was perplexing to me but Mel Gibson's attempt to look like Moses with the Sweetest Beard Ever (it looked like he had a big white tongue!) hypnotized me. But probably what surprised me the most was that none of the people in this documentary referred to the electric car as Jesus. I mean, they may as well have. This movie made me want to buy a Hummer at the end. It annoyed me that much...
  • April 28, 2008
    Interesting documentary and certainly a tale that is worth being told, but it does come across as left wing soapboxing at times. Martin Sheen does an excellent job narrating and the 'trial' style of presentation in a bit of fun. Ultimately this doc seems designed to make you feel...( read more) angry and/or guilty, and only really succeeds on a few levels. Mainly it fails most when it becomes preachy and overbearing, but the overall message is well conveyed. Maybe one day...
  • November 18, 2007
    A really great documentary showing how money controls everything and how America is filled with zombies that buy what big business tells us to buy.
  • May 13, 2007
    As with most documentaries, I got the gist after about 30 minutes and then got bored. I didn't need an hour and a half to basically tell me the same things over and over: corporations are evil, Bush is evil, oil companies are evil, movie stars will save the planet, Bush is evil,...( read more) corporations are evil, the governmental oversight committees are liars and evil, Bush is a liar and evil. Ok OK, I got it, tell me something I don't already know.

    Some cars that could've saved that planet were destroyed. That sucks. Anything else? Well... not really.
  • October 11, 2009
    I liked this one lots of good facts.
  • September 4, 2009
    A great documentary mainly about those whole leased the GM EV-1 back in the 90s and fell in love with them. Then, when the lease was up GM took the cars back and did not offer them for sale anywhere. The vast majority were crushed with a few remaining disabled ones saved for coll...( read more)ections and museums. The same thing happened wit other car manufacturer's similar cars - destroyed even though the divers loved them for their efficiency, quietness, power etc. The documentary looks at the politics and monetary ties that caused these cars to be pulled from the market and destroyed and why we have not seen a true resurgence. The cars always had a waiting list, so the demand was there. In fact, when some former EV-1 drivers found the lot where their cars were being stored, they offered to buy them outright from GM (with more buyers than cars, creating a waiting list for a car never to produced again), but GM outright refused. Mel Gibson, Ed Begely Jr, and other former EV-1 drivers were interviewed for this sad tale of politics dictating the marketplace.
  • August 14, 2009
    I think its scary how corrupt the world really is. This film does a great job of helping us to see that. So often this kind of thing is presented only as conspiracy theories but this was so solidly presented that it's hard to deny what it unveiled. So, that makes it a successf...( read more)ul doc.

    There were several times when I actually felt sick to my stomach and some scenes were so eery. I think it disturbed me so much because it showed how, as a society, we allow ourselves to be so ignorant and abused.

    This is definitely worth a watch. Great attention is paid to the thesis throughout and it allows for a wide range of emotions from the viewer without being manipulative.
  • August 13, 2009
    Very enlightening. Does what a doco should. It makes you feel angry for the way things turn out. Makes you want to do something. Where it falls short is the fact that it repeats itself a bit and gets excessive in its judgement. It does balance things out a bit and leave you with ...( read more)a positive picture... I didnt like the whole conspiracy part of it...with the guilty/not guilty visuals like its a court case or something. Just give me the facts man and let me decide...you dont have to spell it out for me...geeez. Otherwise from that its a must see ... its amazing how the electric car got killed but whats disappointing is how the US government failed its people by not being just. Cest la vie!
  • July 18, 2009
    I feel robbed by my government every time I get a viewing in of this great documentary.

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