Electric Vehicle Documentaries Must Watch Films About the EV Revolution

Tesla videos, films, documentaries and audio clips

#1 Sep 16, 2014 (Edited) List of Tesla and Elon Musk videos longer than 20 minutesTesla related documentaries

1. 2011, Elon Musk: Bloomberg Risk Takers, 52m, LINK1, LINK2, Also available on Netflix US and Canada, Netflix UK Workaround* below
2. 2011, Revenge of the Electric Car, 1h 29m,Option 1: Click this SEARCH LINK (select 89 minutes long video). This doesn't work from the USA. You can use a Chrome extension called ZenMate to connect from the UK. The video is available from the UK.Option 2: It is available on Netflix US, Canada, Norway. For Netflix UK, there is a Workaround* explained below. To see a full list of countries where it is available on Netflix click on the Netflix icon here on Moreflicks**Option 3: A paid version for $2.99 is available on youtube, LINK.
3. 2012, National Geographic Tesla Megafactories Documentary, 45m, SEARCH LINK (select 45,46 or 47 minutes long video) Very good production quality. The music and the voiceover is excellent. This is probably the best documentary I have ever watched. I watched it many times.

Tesla Model S videos

1. 2012 Jun 22, Model S first deliveries, 25m, LINK1, LINK2
2. 2012 Nov 12, 2013 MotorTrend Car Of The Year Event, 20m, LINK1, LINK2
3. Official Tesla Model S Walkthrough Video 27m, LINK (the solfware is old)
4. Official Tesla Model S Walkthrough Videos, LINK
5. 2013 Jan 05, Adam Carolla Model S chat, 24m, LINK, (for long podcast version LINK)
6. 2013 Jan 07, Tesla Model S Delivery Walkthrough, 42m, LINK
7. Official Tesla Model S Touch Screen Video, 31m, LINK (Firmware version in video is v5.12(1.64.38) released on 18 Aug 2014)
8. 2014 May 17, Mike Anthony, What The Owners Have To Say, 40m, LINK
9. 2014 Dec 14, Tesla Model S P85D Delivery Walkthrough, 26m PART1, 17m PART2
10. Bjrn Nyland Videos LINK (There are more than 20 videos longer than 20 minutes)
11. 2014 Jun 17, CNET On Cars, Tesla Model S still the best car in the world?, 24m, LINK
12. 2015 Apr 24, Tesla Model S review by CarAndDriving, 56m, LINK (Full screen doesn't work correctly in 4:3 regular screens. You can change computer resolution settings temporarily to replicate widescreen monitors.)

Tesla conference calls

(Audio Recordings)

Elon Musk videos

(Sorted By Date Recorded)

1. 2008 Sep 29, A Conversation with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, 24m, LINK
2. 2008 Nov 07, Elon Musk at Web 2.0 Summit 08, 29m, LINK
3. 2009 Apr 07, Elon Musk, Churchill Club Interview, 1h 32m, LINK
4. 2010 Oct 14, Elon Musk at Yale, 55m, LINK
5. 2011 Jan 08, Elon Musk, UCLA, Future of Energy and Transportation, 1h 20m, LINK
6. 2011 Jan 20, Elon Musk, Clean Tech Summit 2011, 44m, LINK1, LINK2
7. 2011 Apr 05, Elon Musk, Stimson Center Interview, 60m, LINK1, LINK2 (transcript as PDF file)
8. 2011 Sep 23, Elon Musk, Mahalo Mentor Interview, 39m, LINK
9. 2011 Oct 17, Elon Musk, Atlantic Meets the Pacific Conference, 42m, LINK
10. 2012 Feb 09, Elon Musk, Model X Reveal, 25m, LINK1, LINK2
11. 2012 Jun 06, Tesla Motors, Inc. 2012 Annual Shareholder Meeting, 58m, LINK1, LINK2
12. 2012 Jul 12, Fireside Chat With Elon Musk, Pando Monthly, 1h 3m, LINK
13. 2012 Sep 07, Elon Musk, Kevin Rose Interview, 26m, LINK
14. 2012 Oct 04, Elon Musk, Popular Mechanics Interview, 48m, LINK
15. 2012 Nov 14, Elon Musk, University of Oxford, 1h 26m, LINK
16. 2013 Jan 22, Elon Musk, Computer History Museum Interview, 1h 16m, LINK
17. 2013 Feb 25, Elon Musk, TED Talks, 21m, LINK1, LINK2
18. 2013 Feb 26, Elon Musk and Dr Steven Chu, 2013 ARPA-E Summit, 34m, LINK
19. 2013 Mar 09, Elon Musk, SXSW Conference, 54m, LINK
20. 2013 Apr 17, A Conversation with Elon Musk, Khan Academy, 48m, LINK
21. 2013 Apr 29, Interview with Elon and Kimbal Musk, Milken Institute, 50m, LINK
22. 2013 Jun 04, Tesla Motors, Inc. 2013 Annual Shareholder Meeting, 1h 25m, LINK
23. 2013 Jul 15, Elon Musk at 2013 Teslive Event, 59m, LINK
24. 2013 Aug 20, Elon Musk Dutch TV Interview, 26m, SEARCH LINK (select 26 minutes long video)
25. 2013 Sep 17, Elon Musk at Montana Jobs Summit, 35m, LINK
26. 2013 Oct 02, Elon Musk Interview, Stanford GSB 2013, 53m, LINK
27. 2013 Oct 21, Elon Musk in Mnchen Germany Tesla Event, 23m, LINK
28. 2013 Nov 12, Elon Musk NYTimes DealBook Interview, 24m, LINK
29. 2013 Nov 18, Elon Musk Interview, LA World Affairs Council, 46m LINK
30. 2013 Dec 12, Elon Musk Interview, Dell World 2013, 45m, LINK
31. 2014 Jan 31, Elon Musk, Townhall meeting in Amsterdam, 56m, LINK
32. 2014 Feb 01, Elon Musk in Oslo, 1h 30m, LINK
33. 2014 Feb 27, Elon Musk, California Public Utilities Commission, 1h 53m, LINK
34. 2014 Apr 22, Elon Musk, TV Interview in China, 23m, SEARCH LINK (select 23 minutes long video)
35. 2014 Apr 25, Elon Musk, 2014 Export-Import Bank Conference, 28m, LINK
36. 2014 Jun 03, Tesla Motors, Inc. 2014 Annual Shareholder Meeting, 1h 14m, LINK
37. 2014 Jun 17, CNBC's number 1 disruptor Elon Musk, 21m, LINK
38. 2014 Sep 04, Tesla Gigafactory Announcement, 25m, LINK
39. 2014 Sep 08, Elon Musk, Japan Deliveries, 31m, LINK
40. 2014 Oct 08, Elon Musk at Vanity Fairs New Establishment Summit, 36m, LINK
41. 2014 Oct 24, One-on-one with Elon Musk, MIT Centennial Symposium, 1h 15m, LINK
42. 2015 Jan 13, Elon Musk at 2015 Automotive News World Congress Detroit, 60m, LINK1, LINK2
43. 2015 Jan 13, Elon Musk Automotive News World Congress Q&A Session, 27m, LINK1, LINK2
44. 2015 Jan 15, Elon Musk at Texas Transportation Forum, 32m, LINK
45. 2015 Mar 17, GTC 2015: NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang Interviews Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk, 21m, LINK

Other people from Tesla Motors

(Sorted By Date Recorded)

1. 2006 Aug 05, JB Straubel (Chief Technology Officer), Electric Cars Presentation, 26m, LINK
2. 2009 Oct 07, Franz von Holzhausen (Chief Designer), User Interface Design, LINK
3. 2009 Oct 24, Diarmuid O'Connell (Vice President, Business Development), 24m, LINK1, LINK2
4. 2011 Jan, JB Straubel (Chief Technology Officer), Roadster Interview, 23m, LINK
5. 2012 Oct 05, Milo Werner (New Product Introduction Manager), Tesla Motors Sourcing Strategy, 56m, LINK
6. 2012 Nov 13, Dave Duff (Senior Mechanical Engineer), Stanford Unv. Lecture, 1h 17m, LINK
7. 2013 Sep 13, JB Straubel (Chief Technology Officer), 2013 Energy@Stanford, 30m, LINK
8. 2013 Oct 08, JB Straubel (Chief Technology Officer), 2013 GCEP Symposium, 56m, LINK
9. 2013 Nov 15, Franz von Holzhausen (Chief Designer), Interview, LINK
10. 2014 Jan 14, Jerome Guillen (Vice President, Sales and Service), 2014 Detroit Auto Show, 25m, LINK
11. 2014 May 05, Marc Tarpenning (Co-Founder), Tesla Motors History, 1h 43m, LINK(The PDF used in this presentation can be found here)
12. 2014 May 21, JB Straubel (Chief Technology Officer), 2014 Energy Storage Symposium Keynote, 54m, LINK (the PDF file of that presentation is here)
13. 2014 Jul 01, Javier Verdura (Director of Product Design), 54m, LINK1, LINK2, LINK3
14. 2015 Feb 27, Jerome Guillen (Vice President, Sales and Service), P85D in Switzerland, 22m, LINK1, LINK2
15. 2015 Mar 15, JB Straubel (Chief Technology Officer), 2015 Vail Global Energy Forum, 1h07m, LINK, (the slideshow used in this presentation is here)

Other Tesla related videos

(Sorted By Date Recorded)

1. 2013 May 31, Tesla Go Electric Web Design Case Study, 44m, LINK
2. 2013 Jul 30, Tesla, Nissan, Volt batteries compared by Professor Jeff Dahn, 1h 13m, LINK
3. 2014 Apr 17, Bloomberg News, Tesla v. Dealerships, 48m, LINK
4. 2014 Jun 02, Data management at Tesla factory using Tableau software, 51m, LINK

Content indirectly related to Tesla

1. Radio Program About NUMMI Factory, 2010, 61m, LINK (Click on the small arrow under the picture. There is a 23 second radio advert before it starts)This is a sad story about Toyota and GM's Nummi Factory. Today that building is Tesla's Fremont Factory where they build the cars. Tesla bought it from Toyota. It had a capacity of 500.000 cars per year. Elon Musk said in the future Tesla will restore the factory to its former capacity. In September 2014 during his Japan trip Elon said they have a lot of things to learn from Toyota. This radio program provides some background on why Elon said that. It gives a glance into a fascinating piece of history where two companies with very different cultures, Toyota and GM collided with each other. Maybe it also gives us some clues where Tesla could go and what kind of company they could become.
2. Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006, 92m, Documentary, Moreflicks**)SEARCH LINK (select 92 minutes long video) Elon Musk talked about this documentary many times (link1, link2). He said when GM made the EV1 he thought they would continue with EV2, EV3. But when they crushed the EV1 that's when he knew electric cars wouldn't succeed without a new car company. In other interviews Elon said his motivation is to take a sad thing and change it into a positive. This documentary gives us an idea on the background why Tesla Motors was started. The director of this documentary, Chris Paine, also directed the documentary 'Revenge of the Electric Car' (listed above) a few years after this. Here is a 49m interview with him about his two documentaries where he also talks about Tesla and Elon Musk among other things.
3. Interview with Lyndon Rive, Elon Musk's cousin and the CEO of SolarCity. In parts of this interview he talks about Tesla batteries for solar energy storage. 09 Dec 2013, 21m, LINK1, LINK2

Non-English Tesla related content

(Sorted By Date Recorded)

1. 2014 Mar 21, (German) Futurist Lars Thomsen talks about electric cars and Tesla, 33m, LINK
2. 2014 Sep 06, (German) Futurist Lars Thomsen talks about electric cars and Tesla, 47m, LINK
3. 2014 Oct 03 (French) Jerome Guillen (Vice President, Sales and Service) on French TV, 33m, LINK
4. 2015 Mar 08, (German) Rundgang Elektroauto TESLA Model S 85kWh by Horst Lning, 23m, LINK
5. 2015 Mar 09, (German) Bedienelemente Elektroauto TESLA Model S 85kWh by Horst Lning, 37m, LINK
6. 2015 Mar 29, (German) Vorstellung des TESLA Model S P85D mit Dualmotorantrieb und Autopilot, 34m, LINK

Important Tesla videos less than 20 minutes

(Sorted By Date Recorded)

1. 2012 Oct 04, Car and Driver Tested 2013 Tesla Model S, 16m, LINK
2. 2013 Oct 24, Tesla Model S Review by Exotic Driver, 13m, LINK
3. 2014 Oct 09, Tesla D Event, 13m, LINK
4. 2015 Apr 30, Tesla Energy, PowerWall product reveal event, 18m, LINK1, LINK2

* Netflix Workaround: Watch Netflix US from the UK (works for any country that has Netflix) :1. Sign up to Netflix UK on www.netflix.com2. In Google Chrome, download the extension ZenMate from here: Chrome Web Store3. When you install ZenMate it asks you for your email. This is not important. If you want you can enter a bogus email and make up a password. You won't need these later.4. In Chrome on top right click on the green ZenMate icon and make sure location is US and it says ON.5. Go to netflix.com and sign in with your Netflix UK login details.** Moreflicks: This website shows in what countries the film is available on Netflix or iTunes. When you open the Moreflix page, click on the Netflix or iTunes icon to see the country list.Notes: 1. Anybody can copy this list and create their own version on another website without giving credit to me.2. This list respects copyrights. All direct links open to the original video uploaded by the copyright holder.3. Most dates shown here are recording date, not upload date. It makes more sense to sort videos by recording date if somebody wants to watch them in historical context. Sometimes the recording date that you see here, is not mentioned anywhere on the video page and you might be wondering where the recording date came from. I came from Google search for the date of that specific event.4. This content is directly or indirectly related to Tesla. There is another list here for general EV content but it doesn't follow the two criteria I mentioned above.5. I applied two criteria when creating this list. (1) All items are accessible online to create a better experience. That means if there was a Tesla documentary that you couldn't watch online, I wouldn't list it here because it would create a bad experience. (2) All videos are over 20 minutes, other than a few exceptions, to make them worthwhile watching.6. If I stop updating the list, moderators are welcome to update links and to add items (but not to remove) that meet the two criteria at the beginning.7. I added star ratings to a few 'must watch' videos.8. Check out my other Elon Musk topic here.9. Transcripts of a few of these videos can be found here.Last 3 Updates:Tesla Model S review by CarAndDriving, 24 Apr 2015, 56mTesla Energy, PowerWall product reveal event, 30 Apt 2015, 18m2015-03-19, Ending Range Anxiety, Software Update 6.2, 40m, conference call audio file See less See more

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#2 Sep 17, 2014

Thanks for sharing this list

@Teo

As the vast majority are Tesla related I have moved (the main content of) your post to the Tesla forum where hopefully it will be well received and attract the most appropriate audience and attention.

I have also used some of the generic EV links (mostly removed from your post above) in the main EV films/documentaries etc. thread in the open EV discussion forum.

I haven't checked the links in your post, just cleaned up the formatting and such. Please be sure that copyright infringing material isn't being shared or linked to, as if discovered that will have to be removed. Goes for all contributors.

Thanks again.

Paul

#5 Sep 17, 2014 (Edited)

I cleared copyright issues. When necessary I converted direct links to a youtube search. The rest is either fan videos, videos from Tesla Motors official youtube channel, videos by institutes or other organizations who uploaded their videos.

@Joe Tesla Kennedy

, feel free to copy the entire list if you want. I added a note to the bottom.

#8 Oct 22, 2014

Outstanding compilations!If you are still maintaining it, you might want to add a reference Nick Howe's "News from the Frunk" videos.

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