Who Killed the Electric Car?

A tech thriller without the fiction, tracing the rise and abrupt death of California’s electric car experiment. When zero-emission vehicles hit streets in the 90s only to vanish a decade later, the film follows the money, the mandates, and the mechanical graveyard. A sharp relic of 2000s environmental frustration, carried by engineers, activists, and one very doomed SUV.

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Chris Paine directed Who Killed the Electric Car? in 2006. See Chris Paine's full filmography, where to start with Chris Paine, or where to go after you've seen everything by Chris Paine.

Who Killed the Electric Car? was released in 2006 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 92 minutes.