Chrysler's plug-ins a farce?

Vaporware?

In the last month or a so, a number of rumors about Chrysler's plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles culminated in Chrysler showing off a number of such vehicles with the announcement that one would be produced in 2010.

At the same time, however, Chrysler was in discussions with GM about the possibility of GM taking over Chrysler.

Was all of Chrysler's plug-in talk just a ploy to raise the value of its market capitalization? If Cerberus is trying to offload Chrysler, are they really that serious about a very expensive plug-in program?