Recharging the electric car.

You've probably seen Chris Payne's documentary, Who Killed The Electric Car? And if you haven't it's out on DVD. The picture traces the introduction in the 1990s in California of General Motors's EV1. Their owners loved them. But oil companies and others didn't. And eventually, GM repossessed all the EV1s and crushed them in Arizona.

But the electric car has proven tougher to kill than the EV1's opponents may have hoped. You may have heard about Tesla Motors in Silicon Valley. It's working on the electric car challenge from the high end, building prototypes of an upmarket roadster that goes from zero to 60 miles per hour in four seconds. And General Motors may have learned something. It's working on building an affordable electric car called the Volt, and admitting that grinding up all those EV1s was a boneheaded thing to do.

All that and more is explored in New York Times reporter David Pogue's story for CBS Sunday Morning.  It's even got director Chris Payne working on an electric car sequel.