Bristol Community Presents...a FREE showing of Who Killed The Electric Car (cert U), at The Community Room, 146a Donald Hall Road, Brighton, BN2 5DJ (map) on Mon 14 January 2008. Doors open 6.30pm, film starts at 7pm sharp, with tea and cake afterwards.
A documentary about how the motor and oil industry suppressed an emerging technology which could have been an everyday sighting even in the UK. An environmentally pertinent film giving insight into sustainable transport.
In 1996, electric cars began to appear on roads all over California. They were quiet and fast, produced no exhaust and ran without gasoline. Ten years later, these futuristic cars were almost entirely gone. What happened? Why should we be haunted by the ghost of the electric car?
see a clip of the movie here
Film screening: Who Killed the Electric Car? – Mon 14 January
