Who Killed the Electric Car?

Who Killed the Electric Car?
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Chris Paine
Written by	Chris Paine
Produced by	Jessie Deeter
Starring	Tom Hanks (from a recording) Mel Gibson Chelsea Sexton Ralph Nader Joseph J. Romm Phyllis Diller
Narrated by	Martin Sheen
Cinematography	Thaddeus Wadleigh
Edited by	Michael Kovalenko Chris A. Peterson
Music by	Michael Brook
Production company	Electric Entertainment
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Classics
Release dates	January 23, 2006 (2006-01-23) (Sundance) June 28, 2006 (2006-06-28)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1.8 million[1]

Who Killed the Electric Car? is a 2006 American documentary film directed by Chris Paine that explores the creation, limited commercialization and subsequent destruction of the battery electric vehicle in the United States, specifically the General Motors EV1 of the mid-1990s. The film explores the roles of automobile manufacturers, the oil industry, the federal government of the United States, the California government, batteries, hydrogen vehicles and consumers in limiting the development and adoption of this technology.

After a premiere at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, it was released theatrically by Sony Pictures Classics on June 28, 2006. A follow-up documentary, Revenge of the Electric Car, was released in 2011.^[2]