Documentary examines electric cars




“ Revenge of the Electric Car,” a film about the resurgence of electric vehicles and the race by automakers to bring them to market, will be screened as part of the Community Cinema film series at 7 p.m. Sun., March 4 at the Conejo Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 3327 Old Conejo Road, Newbury Park.

The movie is from director Chris Paine, who co-wrote and directed the 2006 documentary “Who Killed the Electric Car?”

A discussion led by Roger Gilbertson, associate producer of “Revenge of the Electric Car,” and Russell Sydney, a sustainable transport leader and CEO of New Energy Answers, will follow the screening.

Paine’s 2006 film showed GM electric cars being hauled away to be crushed as automakers turned away from the energy-efficient, low-polluting vehicles.

In his new film, Paine’s camera crews went behind the doors of GM, Nissan and Tesla Motors and followed their efforts over three years as top executives decided to take risks and embrace the technology that could lessen the nation’s dependence on foreign oil.

The film, narrated by actor Tim Robbins, also follows a doit yourself entrepreneur who lives and works in a Culver City warehouse, converting gas-powered cars into electric ones.

The screening is free and open to the public. For information, call (805) 374-9818 or visit http:// forum.cvuuf.org.



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