Revenge of the Electric Car poster

Revenge of the Electric Car( 2011)

TV-MADocumentary
71%
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Overview

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.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Chelsea Sexton

      Self

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      Tim Robbins

      Narrator (voice)

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      Danny DeVito

      Self (EV1 Driver)

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      Stephen Colbert

      Self

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      Elon Musk

      Self (CEO, Tesla Motors)

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      Jon Favreau

      Self (Director, Iron Man)

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      Reverend Gadget

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

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      Talulah Riley

      Self

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      Arnold Schwarzenegger

      Self

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    A review by rsanek

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    Written by rsanek on Mon Jul 27 2020
    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 inter...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

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    Revenue

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    Keywords

    • electric vehicles
    • electric car
    • green energy
    • alternative energy