With oil prices at record highs and consumers forced to pay more than $3 per gallon (and rising), it’s hard to imagine a world where $5 could completely fill a car up, where driving could cause no harm to air and lungs, and where an addiction to fossil fuels could be cured.

For six years, thousands of electric vehicle drivers in California lived in such a world.

In 1990 the California Air Resources Board, desperate for a solution to the state’s pollution crisis, targeted the source - car exhaust. It required 2% of vehicles to be emission free by 1998, 10% by 2003. Eager to satisfy the world’s largest car-consumer market, General Motors launched the EV-1 electric vehicle in 1997. It was the first perfect car of the modern age, requiring no gas, no oil, no mufflers, and no brake changes! The lucky few who drove it never wanted to give it up.

So why did GM crush its entire fleet of EV-1’s in the Arizona desert just six years later?

'Who Killed The Electric Car?' chronicles the life and mysterious death of the EV-1, examining the ripple effects caused by its conception, and how they reverberated through the halls of government and business.

Directed by Chris Paine, narrated by Martin Sheen and produced by Jessie Deeter with Executive Producers Dean Devlin, Tavin Marin Titus and Richard D. Titus.

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