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Revenge of the Electric Car University Center: Summers Auditorium |
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2006, thousands of new electric cars were purposely destroyed by the same car
companies that built them. Today, less than 5 years later, the electric car is
back...with a vengeance.
In Revenge of the Electric Car, director Chris
Paine takes his film crew behind the closed doors of Nissan, GM, and the Silicon
Valley start-up Tesla Motors to chronicle the story of the global resurgence of
electric cars. Without using a single drop of foreign oil, this new generation
of car is America's future: fast, fun, and cleaner than ever.
With almost
every major car maker now jumping to produce new electric models, Revenge
follows the race to be the first, the best, and to win the hearts and minds of
the public around the world. It's not just the next generation of green cars
that's on the line. It's the future of the automobile itself.
The primary
cast includes CEO and President of Renault and Nissan Carlos Ghosn with the
Nissan Leaf, CEO of Tesla Motors Elon Musk, Former Vice Chairman of GM Bob Lutz
with the Chevy Volt, and EV do-it-yourselfer Greg "Gadget" Abbott. Also
featured, amongst many others, are Thomas Friedman, LA Times reporter Dan Neil,
EV owner Danny DeVito, and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.