A Tale of Two Isles

Name: Anamesa se dyo nisia
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2014-03-20
Duration: 1 h 19 min
Rating: 9.4
Cast: John Ackroyd, Constantine Adraktas, John Ashby

Original title: Anamesa se dyo nisia

20142014
1h 19min

9.4/10

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The world's first production electric vehicle, introduced in the early '70s -40 years before the auto industry rediscovered the benefits of electric mobility-, was manufactured on a Greek is... Read allThe world's first production electric vehicle, introduced in the early '70s -40 years before the auto industry rediscovered the benefits of electric mobility-, was manufactured on a Greek island.The world's first production electric vehicle, introduced in the early '70s -40 years before the auto industry rediscovered the benefits of electric mobility-, was manufactured on a Greek island.

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The Enfield 8000 electric car, produced in Syros island between 1973 and 1976.

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The world's first production electric vehicle, introduced in the early '70s -40 years before the auto industry rediscovered the benefits of electric mobility-, was manufactured on a Greek island. Enfield Automotive, a British firm based on the Isle of Wight, managed to win the Electricity Council contract for an initial production of about 100 electric vehicles, over the Ford and Leyland propositions. However, as production was about to start, the famous Greek ship owner John Goulandris, owner of Enfield Automotive, transferred the factory to the Greek island of Syros - a decision probably fatal to the car's future at a time when the rise of the petrol price, due to the energy crisis, could make E8000 the ideal solution for urban mobility. —Michalis Stavropoulos

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9/10

a story about a shipyard building electric cars an Greek island in the 60ies!

I was sent the documentary by an old friend who is a fanatic fan of automobile. I knew a bit about the ENFIELD story, so I opened the film just to have a look for a few minutes....... and saw all the 1 hour 19min film. It is really touching how a few men believed in a very advanced project for its time and invested in it, while others worked hard to make it a reality, despite the fact that it was many years before any Electric Vehicle started showing up.

Taking account of the fact that the whole story took place in Greece more than 40 years ago, one can imagine that it was not easy work to find so many document, photos, films and people who worked for the an automobile project, on a shipyard, located on the touristic island of Siros in the Aegean sea.

I believe the work is of exceptional quality from all sides (film, narration and especially editing) as a documentary film. It is also a historical proof of how any industrial activity in Greece, was never easy, as it always had tremendous bureaucratic and even political difficulties.

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