Search - Who Killed the Electric Car? on DVD

MPAA Rating: PG Content Advisory: Adult Language Movie Release: 2006 DVD Release: 11/14/2006 Format: DVD - Color,Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: French SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 33 mins Studio: Sony Pictures Members Wishing: 17 Genres: Science & Technology, Vehicles & Transportation, Inventions & Innovations

Filmmaker Chris Payne explores the many factors that played into the ultimate failure of the electric car to catch on with consumers, even as gas prices began to skyrocket, in a thoughtful meditation on the increasingly important role that renewable energy plays in modern society. Introduced as a means of providing an alternative to increasing oil consumption and reducing pollution in 1996, the electric car was all but a forgotten memory only a decade later -- but why? Though interviews with consumer advocacy experts, automotive industry experts, and oil industry heavyweights, Payne paints a though-provoking picture of a culture whose aversion to change and reliance on dwindling resources may be rooted in the financial concerns of a wealthy few, and may also be leading consumers down a troubling path. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Greg "Gadget" Abbott
Dave Barthmuss
Ed Begley, Jr.
Jim Boyd and His Men of the West
Alec N. Brooks