REVENGE OF THE ELECTRIC CAR IN COPENHAGEN DURING CPH:DOX

On November 7th 2011, Chris Paine's "Revenge of the Electric Car" will be shown in Denmark during the Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival - CPH:DOX. 

The above image is of Chris Paine when he was in Copenhagen 2009 during COP15. The 3rd version  of CO2 E - Race Project during COP15 was documented for "Revenge of the Electric Car", but was taken out in the final edit.

The above is of Chris Paine talking to the Danish Climate Minister in 2010 Lykke Friis, in connection to his visit to Roskilde Festival where he produced a film for the American Embassy about the New Jersey Punk band Titus Andronicus and their perspective on sustainability and Roskilde Festivals way of handling trash as  American Ambassadors in Denmark.

The short film was shown as the Pre-movie to Bjørn Lomborg's "Cool It" at CPH:DOX 2010

The above image is of Chris Paine while driving the Electric Nimbus, that is the worlds oldest converted registered bike. The conversion was done by the Danish scientist Axel Boisen and the location for the image is in the courtyard of Hotel King Arthur where Chris was staying, that is also the location for the after party in connection to the screening of "Revenge of the Electric Car" in Copenhagen.

In connection to Earth Day NYC and the New York version of CO2 E - Race on April 22nd 2011, Chris Paine opened the day with a speech at the Solar One Building on West 23rd Street waterfront. It was also the very same day "Revenge of the Electric Car" had it's world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival later in the evening.

THE PANEL DEBATE IN CONNECTION TO THE SCREENING

The panel debate following the screening of ROTEC will include Lærke Flader, who is the CEO of the Danish Electric Car Alliance.

Søren W. Rasmussen, who is the most electric car skeptic Danish Motor journalist and have written articles like: "Is the Electric Car an Illusion?"

Martin Messer Thomsen, who is one of Denmark's leading Electric Car specialists and very active online and as a test pilot of all new electric cars on the market.

Per Clausen, who is a member of Parliment in the radical left wing political party called "Enhedslisten", where he is in charge of amongst many other issues; Climate, Energy and Culture.

The Moderator of the Panel Debate will be Nikolaj Sonne, who is the TV host of a Danish National TV program about Technology and first mover gadgets. In the spring of 2011, he did an extended program of the Tesla Roadster where he tested the "Tesla Grin" on many Danish celebrities.

The Screening and Panel Debate:
18:00 - 20:30
Monday the 7th of November 2011
Theater GROB
Nørrebrogade 37

Thanks to Vitamin Well for supporting us with refreshing drinks at the screening!

Order tickets HERE
Facebook event page HERE

After Party:
20:30 - 22:00
Hotel Kong Arthur
Nørre Søgade 11
Free Drinks and a presentation of the 2012 plans for
CO2 E - Race at for example Burning Man.

THE START IN THE MORNING AT SOLAR ONE BUILDING

 

Chris Paine - Director of "Revenge of the Electric Car" did the opening speech for the CO2 E - Drive along with Director for Earth Day New York Pamela Lippe (to the right) at the Solar One Building

 Pamlela Lippe - Director of Earth Day - interviewed for FOX TV's Morning show

The CO2 E- Drive magnet signs gets attached to the vehicles, the one above is the red VOLT

The wonderful Electric DeLorean converted by Dave Delman

 The Nissan LEAF - that one could also see massive amounts of AD's for all over the city

 

The super sexy Inizio from Li-ion Motors

 The Lime Green Wave from Li-ion Motors

 The Mini - E from Beautiful Earth

 

The Electric SMART car

The Electric LOMAX from Methacton High School in Norristown, Pensylvania                      

 The Bio Fueled Novozymes Ford Focus

 

The Bio Fueled Ford Pick-up Truck from Vogelbilt Corp

 The Cherry Red GM VOLT

 

And of course the TESLA! This one the discrete and stylish Dark Green version

Here, the Sky Blue version with Danish drivers!

 

And the Silver Surfer, The Green Apple and the Sky Blue all the way to the right

 The artist behind the CO2 E - Drive, Jacob Fuglsang Mikkelsen rode the lovely Danish BioMega Bike

The participating vehicles getting ready to take off after they were installed with GPS units from US Fleet Tracking, that showed each vehicle on the Toshiba Jumbo screen on Time Square

Are you ready to be E Fluxed?

SEE THE REPLAY OF THE DRIVE HERE

See the next post HERE

THE ROSKILDE VERSION ON JULY 4TH 2010

Many wonderful things came together on July 4th when the project was produced in the city of Roskilde and at the Roskilde Festival.


Video by Andreas Brandrup Elkjær

The above CO2 painting over Roskilde was made by the 7 year old Sasha Estella Fuglsang Mikkelsen and a follow-up event for children will take place again in Roskilde in connection with the installation of the permanent LED Light route through the city.

The White Tesla from Vind Energy and the White Melex from Svenningsen's on display at the morning Electric Car Exhibition on the main square of Roskilde City, with the Roskilde Cathedral in the background where Danish King's and Queens have been buried for centuries.

 

There was also a small exhibition of the cars and a scooter in front of the Roskilde Municipality Building. The second car in line after the red Citroen was a solar powered car from Ben & Jerry's.

Captian Hope held his now classic Ode to Ra or "The Sunny Happy People Speech"

Mr. Green and his Climate Clowns and Crew performed for the Roskilde children at the nearby Public Library, on the Square and all over the Roskilde Festival.

Mr. Green was also in charge of the PAINT in the form of color coded GPS devices to be installed in all the vehicles part of the painting performance.

The Cars (The Brushes) performing the painting performance through the streets of Roskilde.

Singing the Energy Song inside of the ARRIVA Electric bus on the route.

The Electric Scooters and Electric Motor Cykles driving behind the bus.

The Roskilde Festival Th!nk City Car driving in front of the caravan on it's way into the Festival Area with the Twin Towers in the back ground.

The Melex with a Mr. Green on the back and the Segway entering the Roskilde Festival area.

Chris Paine (Director of the documentary "Who Killed the Electric Car") interviewing Esben Danielsen from Roskilde Festival for his short film to be screened at COP16 in Cancun.

The Danish Climate Minister Lykke Friis came by and got a green nose by Mr. Green and declared: "CANCUN CAN!"

Along with driving the Green Electric Scooter with a smile!

The CO2 E - Race Roskilde Crew was happy in the end of the day and later went to go and see the artist currently known as:

..Prince, and he was Funky!

THE 13TH OF DECEMBER 2009 VERSION OF THE CO2 PERFORMANCE IN COPENHAGEN

Two Tesla's, a Mini Hummer and a Biofuel run Novozymes Volvo lining up in front of Forum before the start of the CO2 Painting Performance. Each electric car was handed a TracTrac GPS modul on a silver platter by Mr Green, to use as paint when driving the CO2 route.


The Lynx on the Catwalk on Copenhagen's main Square Rådhuspladsen


The snake of cars over Queen Louise's Bridge with neon lights telling the date in the background


Chris Paine, the Director of the Documentary Film "Who Killed The Electric Car", documenting the project for his next film "The Revenge of the Electric Car"


Danish Man of Adventure, Hjalte Tin talks about his CO2 friendly vehicle that he will drive around the world in.


The Hopenhagen Globe with the CO2 Tag being drawn on by the almost 100 CO2 friendly cars and their GPS, projected by five projectors. The GPS moduls from TracTrac sent live information to the projector that screened the actual cars realtime as they moved through the streets in one long parade.

Above the CO2 tag on COWI's photo over Copenhagen and Tratrac's webinterface, showing each car on the right side, each with a different color dot and virtually painting one layer each og the final line.

Two Tesla's in fron t of The Danish National Art Gallery, shot by John Krøll as part of his 360 PAN-X documentation of the project.


Image shot out of the back window of the Electric Arriva Bus that the CO2 E - Race Crew, The Mr. Green Crew and the General Secretary of the Danish Cultural Institute Finn Andersen was all inside of during the performance.