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Revenge of the electric car is a 2011 american feature documentary film by chris paine, who also directed who killed the electric car the documentary. In revenge of the electric car, director chris paine takes his film crew behind the closed doors of nissan, gm and the silicon valley startup tesla motors to chronicle the story of the global resurgence of electric cars. This optimistic film lacks the outrage of the earlier work, but thats o. Going behind the closed doors of nissan, gm, the innovative california startup tesla motors and an independent car converter named greg gadget abbott to. First, theres bob lutz mr detroit himself, the cigarsmoking vicechairman of. Michelle kaffko documentarian chris paine chronicled general motors gms figurative and literal pulling of the plug on the electric car the ev1 in his film, who. Paine has a sequel, revenge of the electric car, and there has been a more or less complete turnaround in the auto industry over electric cars. As more models of electric cars than ever before start to arrive in showrooms and driveways across the world, chris paines film offers an inspiring.
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