There is no doubt about the buzz surrounding electric cars this year. 電動車毫無疑問地今年將成為熱鬥話題。
Major carmakers are betting big on the technology, but will it pay off? 許多汽車大廠對於這項科技投入鉅資，但這樣的投資會獲得回報嗎？
One filmmaker thinks so, and his new film looks at the role the electric car will play in the future of the automotive industry. 有位電影工作者認為會，他拍攝的新片探討了電動車未來在汽車業中將會扮演的角色。
Plugging in instead of filling up, this year many consumers will get their first chance to buy an electric car. 插電而非加油，今年很多消費者將首度有機會購買電動車。
Electric models from Nissan and GM are now sold in the U.S. and Europe. 日產和通用汽車製造的電動車現在正在美國和歐洲販售。
But this isn't the first time a major car maker has gone electric. 但是這並非汽車大廠頭一遭生產電動車。
Rewind to 1997, GM released the EV1. 時間倒轉到一九九七年，通用汽車推出 EV1。
The electric car is here. 電動車的時代來臨了。
Not quite, it turns out. 結果卻不盡然。
Only 1,000 EV1s were produced, available only for lease in California and Arizona. EV1 只生產了一千輛，只在加州和亞歷桑納州供出租使用。
A few years later, GM decided to pull the plug, repossessing the cars and destroying them. 幾年之後，通用汽車決定停止生產這款車，同時將車輛收回銷毀。
The Detroit giant said that the technology simply wasn't ready. 這家位於底特律的汽車大廠表示，電動車的技術根本還未臻成熟。
Many of the early converts were disappointed, including Chris Paine. 很多早期改開電動車的人對此感到失望，包括克里斯．潘恩在內。
We had an amazing experience with this car, and one day they said, we're taking the cars back. 這輛車讓我們有了很棒的體驗，然後有一天他們說，我們要收回車子了，
And it wasn't just my car, it was all these cars. 而且不只是我的車而已，這些電動車全部都要收回。
So we started digging down to see what had happened, 所以我們開始挖掘答案，看看發生了什麼事，
and it turned out that a variety of forces had kind of come together to kill this generation of cars. 結果發現有很多股不同的力量算是匯集在一起，扼殺了這一代的電動車。
So that's why we made the film, to kind of make a murder mystery out of this whole story. 這就是我們拍這部電影的原因，有點像在用這件事來拍一部謀殺懸疑片。
His 2006 film, Who Killed the Electric Car? became a cult hit. 他在二○○六年拍的這部《誰殺了電動車？》電影後來在特定的圈子裡大受歡迎。
It chronicled the short life of electric cars in the late '90s 該片按時序紀錄了電動車在九○年代末期的短暫生命，
which arrived as a result of tighter restrictions on air pollution in California. 而電動車原本是因應加州進一步加強空氣污染管制而生的產品。
The film didn't shy away from laying blame. 這部電影也不避諱咎責，
The culprits in the film ranged from the oil companies to the carmakers themselves. 片中的元凶包含從石油公司到汽車製造商本身。
In 2011, it is a radically different climate. 二○一一年的氛圍則截然不同。
Enter Paine's new documentary, The Revenge of the Electric Car. This time, electric cars are going mass market. 一起來看看潘恩新拍的紀錄片《電動車的復仇》。這一次，電動車要進軍大眾市場了。
There's a degree of excitement around electric vehicles we hadn't seen before. 現在大家對於電動車的興奮程度是我們從未見過的。
The film follows four leaders in the field: 這部電影採訪了四位電動車領域的領導者：
former GM vice chairman Bob Lutz, Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn... 前通用汽車副總裁鮑伯．魯茲、日產汽車執行長卡洛斯．葛森……
We need to predict the future, prepare for it. If it happens, we'll be ready. 我們必須要預先設想未來，並且做好準備。一旦成真時，我們就會是準備好的。
Electric car enthusiasts Greg Abbott and Tesla founder Elon Musk. ……電動車愛好者葛雷格．艾柏特和特斯拉汽車創始人伊隆．莫斯克。
Until we see every car on the road being electric, we will not stop. 在我們看到路上每輛車都是電動車之前，不會停下腳步。
This big surprise is that electric cars are coming back as fast as they are. 令人大感意外的是，電動車捲土重來的速度奇快無比。
Some people are, you know, wondering whether our film is trying to be too corporate friendly in a sense, 有些人懷疑我們的電影的立場在某種程度上是否太偏袒企業了，
but my intention is electric cars need to be in the marketplace. 但我的目的是，電動車必須能在市場上銷售。
We haven't been able to buy them. 我們一直買不到電動車，
If the corporations are going to help us buy them, then we're gonna tell that story. 如果企業能幫忙我們買到電動車，那麼我們就要把這件事報導出來。
The electric cars featured in the film are currently available only in select markets. 這部電影中出現的電動車，目前只在特選的市場買得到。
So for many around the world, 所以對於世界各地許多人而言，
we'll have to wait until spring for the film and even later for the cars. 我們必須等到春天才看得到這部電影，而且甚至要等到更遲些才能買到這些車。