documentary by Chris Paine, Who Killed the Electric Car? automobiles reported in the U.S. - but you'll probably like his new movie

is safe to say that the filmmaker Chris Paine was the scourge of General Motors not long ago.

2006

his documentary, Who Killed the Electric Car? charged with the auto industry and oil companies of conspiring to destroy the first generation of mass production of electric vehicles - GM's EV1. After losing $ 1 billion in a leasing scheme for electric vehicles, the company entered the 5000 cars are sent to the crusher.

Five years later, however, more than 15,000 electric cars on American roads and the Chevy Volt plug-in is the engine of the recovery of GM.

Paine

documents the return of the dead from the plug-in on a new movie of revenge, of electric cars.

Paine said in a telephone interview:

"It is gratifying to see the return of the industry. It is clear that we are not all cars electric, but the fact that in the interior of many of these companies are in search of electric cars so seriously is remarkable when you consider what is passed five years ago. "

The result is the film offers a vision. "Bob Lutz of General Motors that the resumption of the development company on the Volt, after the rescue of the auto industry. It is Nissan's Carlos Ghosn, who also took risks with a sheet, and Elon Musk of Tesla the inventor of Paypal, who used his own money to produce luxury sports car.

But despite the happy ending for the electric car, Paine has not yet overcome the loss of the EV1. Their destruction will likely make it more difficult to convince Americans that they can rely on electric vehicles, he said.

"The tragedy is that the cars destroyed so no one could see the whole debate was just a theory. It was not the visceral experience, "he said.

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