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Chris Paine
Writer and Director, Revenge of the Electric Car and Who Killed the Electric Car?
Chris Paine is the writer and director of Revenge of the Electric Car (2011) and Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006), released by Sony to become one of the more successful documentaries of recent times.
Film projects as executive producer include Mark Neale's Charge!, about electric motorcycle racing, with Ewan McGregor (2011); Faster (2003); and No Maps for These Territories (2001), about cyberpunk author William Gibson. Chris co-founded Internet Outfitters in 1995 and Mondo-tronics, a robotics materials provider for the Mars Pathfinder mission in the 1980s.
In the U.S., Chris has appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Nightline, ABC World News Tonight, Democracy Now, and "Science Friday" on NPR. He has toured nationally to speak, including venues at Brown, Stanford, and the Matthew Shepard Symposium on Social Justice.
Chris was raised in San Francisco and studied film and international relations in New York. He co-founded the site counterspill.com in the wake of the BP oil disaster and serves on the advisory boards of the e-bike company Conscious Commuter Corp., Impro Theatre, and the Black Rock Arts Foundation.
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Posted on Fri Dec 6, 2024, 8:00 am
This little electric car made history. 25 years ago, GM stopped making it - O... -
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‘Revenge of the Electric Car’ director Chris Paine on the state of EVs - Stra... -
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Rick Haglund: Who’s trying to kill the electric car (again)? - Michigan Advance -
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Revenge of the Electric Car - Independent Lens - PBS -
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Tesla Model X with over 400,000 miles gets turned into a piece of art by Kenn... -
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Chris Paine is making another sequel to ‘Who Killed the Electric Car?’ - Elec... -
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Electric Cars: Just Around the Corner for a Long, Long Time - Time Magazine -
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Interview: Chris Paine, filmmaker, about the rebirth of electric cars. - elec... -
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Earth Day 2014: Electric cars at a 'tipping point' - CBC -
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Revenge of the Electric Car - AZPM News -
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Opinion | Five myths about electric cars - The Washington Post -
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Revenge of the Electric Car – review - The Guardian -
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Film Review: ‘Revenge of the Electric Car’ - CineVue -
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Revenge Of The Electric Car: Available On DVD, From Today - Green Car Reports -
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MOVIE REVIEW: 'Revenge of the Electric Car' delivers a big charge - The Patri... -
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‘Revenge of the Electric Car’ lacks strong jolt of original - The Boston Globe -
Posted on Wed Oct 26, 2011, 7:00 am
Elon Musk: Refining Gas Uses More Electricity Than Electric Cars - Business I... -
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Revenge of the Electric Car: It’ll be sweet if these things actually work - T... -
Posted on Tue Sep 27, 2011, 7:00 am
EVs are back in Revenge of the Electric Car - Autoweek
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