After many cancelled attempts to create a viable electric minivan, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles now appears ready to bring one to market as early as this year.

Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne may have issues with pure-electric cars, but last year he gave his blessing to a plug-in version of the company's category leading minivan, moving up the time table for its debut from 2016 to late this year, likely in December, 2015.

Over the last several decades, Chrysler had made many tentative forays into the electrification of its vehicles, starting 1993 with the TEVan, followed by the EPIC minivan, and the Natrium fuel cell minivan. Three years ago, it experimented with its first plug-in hybrid minivan, but called off the effort when the Electrovaya lithium-polymer batteries began overheating.

Presumably, Chrysler engineers and designers have come up with a more reliable and affordable solution to what could be a huge and virtually untapped market.

I am sure that these overheating problems have been solved.....and Electrovaya still has the picture of the Dodge RAM Plug-In...as a logo in the latest prsentation (2nd December 2015)