A Vingança do Carro Elétrico

This may be a tad dated.

This excellent documentary starts where "Who Killed the Electric Car?" left off. Only this time we get to go behind the closed doors of Nissan, GM, and the Silicon Valley start-up Tesla Motors. We seem to concentrate more on the people behind the project than the project itself.

Many times, we are left with the question will the company survive or not. We watch technology the sings and swims. We watch as financing gets scarce. Nerves fray and wonder about sincerity.

There is lots of great footage of cars and their making. In one scene where robots were making leaves, I turned to my wife and suggested that it looked like a scene from "Atlas Shrugged Part 1". She said it reminded her of "The Terminator". Could be because Arnold was in the documentary.

I was disappointed to find there was no Ed Begley Jr. In the presentation as he is a great advocate of electric cars.

In the end, it was sort of a commercial for the targeted companies. Ford Fusion gets a two-second flash. I will watch this over again as it moves fast enough to miss some of the subtleties.

And for people that gauge their DVD by the number of extras, you will not be disappointed with the variety and usefulness of the extras.

By the way, do you think the neighbor would notice the bright orange cable plugged into their outdoor lamp? On a serious side, we now have several charging stations at the local university and the used book store. Could use more but it is a start.

You may want to watch an oldy but goodie Quem Matou o Carro Elétrico? (2006).