Filmmaker, 'Who Killed the Electric Car?'
Filmmaker whose documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? described the rise and fall of General Motors' first electric vehicle, the EV1, in the 1990's. His next film is Revenge of the Electric Car
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Chris Paine
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FROM Chris Paine
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Looking for Sexy and Green at the LA Auto Show After raising 20 billion-dollars in the first day of trading, it’s not Government Motors any more, although taxpayers still own a big share of GM. But the big news about cars in LA is the Auto Show, which opens to the public tomorrow at the Convention Center.
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Little Cars, Green Cars at the LA Auto Show The exhibition opening tomorrow at the downtown convention center is not your father's LA Auto Show . Bentley, Ferrari, Maserati and Lamborghini won't even be there. That has a lot to do with what's selling these days and the answer is, not much. The automakers, of course, want to turn that around.
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