Leaving the producers and editors to fend for themselves for a few days during post-production, Chris Paine is headed to Europe for some important events in the EV sphere.  He'll be participating in another electric car rally, then filming the grand opening of the new Danish Tesla dealership.  After speaking in Copenhagen on June 30th about Revenge of the Electric Car and on the importance of confronting the oil disaster in the United States, he's headed to the Roskilde Music Festival. But he won't be there to party and catch some awesome bands... Chris was invited by the US State Department to make a short film for the 2010 UN Convention on Climate Change next December, and he'll be gathering some footage for that at the festival.

Revenge of the Electric Car director Chris Paine attended the "LA Get Off Oil Day" rally in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday, June 22nd, where Chelsea Sexton from Who Killed the Electric Car? was also spotted, along with author and radio personality Richard Greene, LA's mayor, members of NRDC, The Sierra Club, Heal the Bay, and more.  The event was organized by filmmakers for the documentary recently released on DVD, Fuel, directed by Josh Tickell- who was also in attendance and speaking at the rally. A large number of people at the rally were calling for more options for powering vehicles than traditional gas cars and to take REVENGE by having automakers offering and consumers purchasing electric cars.  

Executive Producer Stefano Durdic made a visit to Chicago's Academy for Global Citizenship today, to give the students at this public contract school a chance to tour the Tesla Roadster and learn about electric cars.  The young students had the same questions about electric cars that most adults have: "How fast does it go?" "Does it make any noise?" "How long does it take to charge the battery?" "Is it expensive?" "How far can it go before you have to charge it again?" "What other colors does it come in?" "Does it come in pink?" At first they didn't seem to believe Stefano when he told them it can go 120 miles per hour and that it had over 6,000 lithium ion batteries in the back.  But after getting some hands-on time with the car to look at the batteries and to see how the "gas tank" wasn't a gas tank but an electric outlet, the kids became believers.