A documentary that investigates the birth and death of the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable living in the future.A documentary that investigates the birth and death of the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable living in the future.A documentary that investigates the birth and death of the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable living in the future.
- Awards
- 4 nominations total
Martin Sheen
- Narrator
- (voice)
Reverend Gadget
- Self
- (as Greg 'Gadget' Abbott)
David Freeman
- Self
- (as S. David Freeman)
Frank Gaffney
- Self
- (as Frank J. Gaffney Jr.)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Featured review
This movie really highlights problems with American business. It seems that even after killing the electric car, there is actually a concerted effort afoot to kill the electric car movie. I can see that someone might not give it a 10 but a 2? Come on, its a great movie. Someone appears to be lowballing the vote. How anyone can build a love story and turn it into a tragedy -- about a car is amazing but unfortunately believable. I don't believe in conspiracy theories but I guess here it is just a strongly for or strongly against issue so it really isn't a conspiracy. However, I see the misinformation brigade that the movie caught in its own lies is at it even here at IMDb. Can you imagine a car company recalling all its cars, crushing them and killing the entire line just because a safety standard changed? Come on, whoever wrote that, please tell us what wavers were made? That explanation just doesn't make sense. A little more engineering and any problems (if there are any) can be solved. I highly recommend that anyone who drives, breathes, or hates to buy gas should see this movie.
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Did you know
- TriviaThe boxy, small EV shown being crushed in the movie was the Honda EV-Plus. They, like the sleek GM EV-1, were only available for lease; several returned to Honda, and were converted into fuel cell demonstration vehicles. For a while, you were able to lease them through EV Rentals (at several Budget Rent a Car locations).
- Quotes
Mel Gibson: Who writes the history? Um, well... The guy with the biggest club.
- SoundtracksJane's Theme
from The Thirteenth Floor (1999) (as The 13th Floor)
Composed by Harald Kloser
Courtesy of Centropolis Entertainment
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Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- EV Confidential
- Filming locations
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $1,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,678,874
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $45,138
- Jul 2, 2006
- Gross worldwide
- $1,764,304
- Runtime1 hour 32 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.75 : 1
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