Electric Dreams, the Movie?

So, as people regularly ask me, what's happening with the movie? You may recall that film rights were optioned by Participant Productions, the company behind critically acclaimed films such as the documentary Murderball as well as the movies North Country, Good Night and Good Luck, and Syriana. And An Inconvenient Truth.

That was then. In the inscrutable way of Hollywood, E. Dreams, the movie project, has gone into turnaround, which means its future is uncertain, but not necessarily undone. It is still being enthusiastically championed, there is a script, a well-credentialed director is interested—but what seems to be lacking, at the moment, is the bearer of the checkbook.

Meanwhile, however, ideas that seemed dead and buried when the book came out are proving that reports of their demise were premature. By golly, GM's even touting an EV all over again, the Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid. However, if you followed the saga of GM's EV-1, (see Electric Dreams or Who Killed the Electric Car) then you, like me, will believe the Volt is more than mere green window-dressing when you can walk into your local dealer and buy one.