Chrysler LLC's Global Electric Motorcars sales up 30%

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According to the WSJ:

It's a sure sign electric cars have a future when they're catching on in Texas. Others here, too, are abandoning the family car and driving to the office in what appear to be fancy little golf carts. Small battery-powered vehicles have been on the market for years but have mainly been used by workers driving around factories and university campuses.

The small cars are powered by batteries charged by plugging them into regular 110-volt house current. Though they do look like golf carts, they have heftier frames and more powerful engines. Now, with high gasoline prices driving booming sales, many are going to ordinary folks like the Peterses, who have fallen in love with gasoline-free transportation.

Orders at ZAP, a Santa Rosa, Calif., maker of small electric cars, have exploded to about 50 a day from just five six months ago. Shipments at Chrysler LLC's Global Electric Motorcars, or GEM, which made the Peterses' cars, have jumped 30% from last year's second quarter, with some of its 150 dealerships around the country tripling their sales.

[dodger098]

Funny, I didn't know that chrysler even had a division that sold electric cars.

[diesel game]

Sad, the guy has to sell a truck and let another one just sit while he drives around in a golf cart.  They may be great for doing trips in the city but how much is your safety worth?  Getting hit by a car would guarantee serious injury.

[gman]

My god, they're driving around in these things:

[flint]

My god, they're driving around in these things:

I don't care who you are that's funny right there.