February 16, 2010 – 8:29 am
Director Chris Paine was in Indianapolis this week to film for ‘Revenge.’
More details in this TV report:
Filmmaker in Ind. for electric car doc
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 [...]
January 13, 2010 – 9:05 am
The Revenge team filmed a historic meeting in Detroit today — getting GM Vice President and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk together on camera for the first time.
More details after the jump :
Detroit’s Electric Avenue: The Street of Dreams?
From the NY Times post:
“Mr. Paine, who produced the documentary “Who Killed the Electric Car?” arranged the [...]
August 13, 2009 – 10:37 am
We went to Detroit recently to see Bob Lutz. In these turbulent times, we wanted to know how the Vice Chair of GM was getting along.
We found Bob smoking a cigar on his Segway. Which was definitely my favorite visual of the trip. Lutz lives in a spread that can best be described as [...]
YOU KNOW THE times are a changin’ when you see Republican senators like Richard Lugar turning out for the launch of an electric vehicle. We interviewed Senator Lugar in DC recently — as we caught the Capitol Hill debut of Bright Automotive’s Idea — a plug-in hybrid electric delivery vehicle.
Senator Lugar was also cheering for [...]
January 5, 2009 – 5:36 pm
Over the holidays, the “Revenge” team spent time filming with Greg “Gadget” Abbott as he moved into a cavernous new warehouse space in downtown LA.
Gadget runs an electric car conversion company called Left Coast Electric. He’s also the star of the TV shows “Smash Lab” and “Monster House”- where he’s shown millions of viewers [...]
December 12, 2008 – 2:28 pm
Our co-producer continues her account of shooting behind the scenes at Tesla.
As we captured key meetings with department heads, Elon stressed his commitment to ramping Tesla up – and the fact that his role was hands-on. He reminded person after person that no problem or detail was too small. The buck stopped with Elon.
We [...]
December 10, 2008 – 4:20 pm
Let me just give it away now….the first day we filmed this fall at Tesla, we got to see not one, not two, not three, but, and I counted—over 40 production Roadsters in the Menlo Park buildings. There is something about the sight of more than four million dollars of incredibly sleek, fast (they do [...]
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 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 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 [...]
October 1, 2008 – 12:26 pm
Welcome to our blog and Chris Paine’s new film, “Revenge of the Electric Car.” (slated for Spring, 2011)!
Every week, we’ll be posting production stories, insider information, and late breaking news from the world of plug-in vehicles. We’ll be covering stories from around the world — from the auto giants to the converters to indy [...]
