Who Killed the Electric Car?

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Who Killed the Electric Car?
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PG,1hr 32min
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June 28, 2006
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Sony Pictures Classics
Synopsis: 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 ... Full Synopsis
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