Who Killed the Electric Car? Critic Reviews

Who Killed the Electric Car? makes you angry, and also sad, to live in a country where innovation could be contrived into an enemy.Read the full review

The only question his movie doesn't ask is "What do you want your next car to run on?" That's up to you.Read the full review

A murder mystery, a call to arms and an effective inducement to rage, Who Killed the Electric Car? is the latest and one of the more successful additions to the growing ranks of issue-oriented documentaries.Read the full review

A potent hybrid of passion and politics fuel this energetic and highly compelling documentary.Read the full review

A balanced examination of the reasons for the electric car's disappearance, reasons that include corporate collusion and greed, governmental spinelessness and oil company propaganda -- but also consumer indifference and the limitations of the vehicles themselves.Read the full review

Above all, the film is an extended love letter to the EV1, a sleek GM electric marvel that, by Paine's reckoning, marks the single greatest innovation in human technology since the wheel.Read the full review

Oil companies aren't the only ones profiting from a spike in prices at the gas pump. It's likely also to boost the prospects of Who Killed the Electric Car? a likable if partisan post-mortem on the now-defunct auto.Read the full review

Who Killed the Electric Car?, a fascinating feature-length documentary by Chris Paine, opens with a mock funeral, then follows the structure of a mock trial in which multiple suspects are found guilty.Read the full review

Fascinating documentary.Read the full review