This is Out of the Blue

Yesterday Chrysler Motors unveiled three battery-powered cars. They're slated to be on the market in 2010, to coincide w/ the Chevy Volt. The Wrangler and the Town and Country have similar ranges to the Volt, with 40 miles on battery, then an additional 360 miles from one-liter gasoline generator.

A surprise move for a firm steeped in bankruptcy or merger talks a few years ago, and an encouraging one, given the present oil situation.

On the silence of the vehicles: "That silence," one onlooker commented, "is the sound of the death of gasoline power." Overly optimistic?