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Built for the urban motorist, this quirky vehicle is quiet, easy to drive and can be plugged directly into a wall socket.It is the Enfield 8000, and it first rolled off the production line in 1973.The name will ring very few bells these days, but not only did such a car hit the road some four decades before the Tesla Model S or Nissan Leaf, it actually did so with the help of Greek brains, hands and money.Now a new documentary unravels the story behind the birth and premature death of an electric pioneer. “A Tale of Two Isles,” an informative, well-crafted and at times emotional film directed by Michalis Stavropoulos, a Greek automotive journalist, is showing at this year's Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (TDF).The story goes back to 1966...