January 15, 2010 – 8:51 am
(December, 2009)
Late night on the streets of Copenhagen, and biting cold. It was a dark and snowy night. But what I really wanted was…a bicycle.
Two weeks in on a trip to Denmark and my perspective on weather and transportation had shifted. The fastest way across town was on a bike regardless of conditions. Sure, an [...]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk appeared on the David Letterman show on Wednesday. Dave and Elon talk about the Roadster, the Model S and the future of electric cars.
Watch out for the name check for ‘Who Killed the Electric Car?’ around 3 minutes in …
January 19, 2009 – 1:01 pm
Dateline: Washington, DC
The buzz is everywhere and completely electric in Washington DC this week. And some of that energy is headed directly to plug-in cars. We’ve heard electric cars mentioned time and again in our two days here, and we haven’t even been to Live Earth’s Green Gala yet. It’s just remarkable to see what [...]
December 8, 2008 – 1:28 am
From December 3, 2008 broadcast of “Issues With Jane Velez-Mitchell” on Headline News
Topic: Are Bailouts the Answer to Economic Woes?
Chris Paine (director of “Who Killed the Electric Car?”) – …what the government should be doing is writing purchase orders and saying, “Hey, we want something for our money. So we’ll write you a purchase order [...]
November 27, 2008 – 8:57 pm
Even I was surprised. In my rear view mirror I watched a Los Angeles Sheriff’s car pull out of the Chevron and turn on both its blue and red flashing lights to pursue me down Ventura Boulevard. It had only been hours since I eased out of the Tesla dealership in West Los Angeles and already [...]
November 21, 2008 – 9:42 am
Dr. Electric Car’s Sing-a-long Musical Blog
We received this link and our first singalong musical blog posting from Bo Brown and the gang at Hogmolly
Hi folks,
Heard you were gearing up for another documentary on the electric car. I saw the first one, it had enough impact on me that I wrote a song on the subject.
The [...]
November 12, 2008 – 1:52 am
It’s alive! It’s alive! It’s alive!
My brand new silver all-electric Tesla Roadster sportscar (#23) arrived by truck in Los Angeles yesterday. Shrouded in plastic and tucked into the back of a semi with three other Tesla’s, it waited to be rolled onto the streets of Los Angeles.
My nervousness turned to pure joy as it [...]
November 7, 2008 – 4:00 pm
Suffice to say, all of GM’s development programs including the Volt are threatened.
For all of GM’s industrial successes and environmental failures, many elements of the American economy including the advertising-dependent entertainment industry — rise and fall with its fortunes.
G.M. Says U.S. Cash Is Its Best Hope
By Bill Vlasic and Nick Bunkley for the NY Times.
The [...]
November 6, 2008 – 11:55 am
Three weeks ago we spent the day shooting at the Kick Gas Festival in San Diego. One of our favorite diversions was testing the electric bikes. I’ve always been skeptical about e-bikes. Why waste electricity when you can just pedal? Well, that day changed our minds. Electric bikes could well be the secret weapon of [...]
November 4, 2008 – 12:06 am
It’s really hard to beat a week in Iceland. With the conference over, we went on a tour tracking down electric cars and the clean electricity to power them.
Highlights the second half included an unlikely interview in the spectacular black lava “Blue Lagoon” hot springs. This is the place where tourists sometimes ask “…why did [...]
October 10, 2008 – 3:31 pm
The rumors are true. Iceland is beautiful. Sitting on the continental plates between Europe and North America, this volcanic island is home to a mere 300,000 people.
I came as a guest for Driving Sustainability, Iceland’s conference for the future of cars. They lined up an international and terrific schedule. Yet-Ming Chiang from A123 [...]
October 5, 2008 – 1:30 am
Early wakeup calls in Detroit continued as our grand tour picked up speed.
We shoot at the Tech Center campus where engineers ran tests on Volt battery packs. To our surprise, some of the industrial battery testing equipment came from Aerovironment, the company who had built the SunRaycer and Impact EV prototypes back in the early [...]
October 4, 2008 – 1:35 am
General Motors invited me to Detroit to speak on a panel at its 100th anniversary along with a small group of other “outside voices”. Since GM’s Vice Chairman, Bob Lutz planned to unveil the Chevy Volt production prototype, we decided to take our film crew. We knew we were being pulled into GM’s PR [...]
