Rotten
Another few of these squandered opportunities for art-house muckraking and we'll need someone to ask who killed the left-wing documentary.
Rob Nelson, Village Voice
Who Killed the Electric Car?
A lack of consumer confidence... or conspiracy?
2006 · 1h 32m · PG
Documentary
Directed by
Chris Paine
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Who Killed the Electric Car?
Overview
In 1996, electric cars began to appear on roads all over California. They were quiet and fast, produced no exhaust, and ran without gasoline... Ten years later, these cars were destroyed.
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Top critics, in their words
89%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Chris Paine's documentary about General Motors' development and withdrawal of the innovative, environment-friendly EV1 automobile is bound to reverberate with anyone who's fallen in love with a product only to see it irrevocably yanked from the market.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Filmmaker Chris Paine's postmortem on the EV1s doesn't answer all our questions, but it is reasonably evenhanded and quite entertaining.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Fresh
It's liable to get people hopping mad, whether or not they buy Paine's overarching conspiracy theory.
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
Fresh
... an entertaining but sometimes disingenuous documentary ...
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
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