another fact that is important is that the dash went dark too. also no dome lights when the door was opened after stopping.
My dealer Tech is excellent.
He thinks the key could be the trouble as sometimes they go crazy but the loss of dash illumination is odd.
He said the ground to the battery was not super tight-not perfect but prob not the issue. Also alternator would provide some juice to the car under way.
There was no alternator light to come on. Sudden loss of all electrical capability in car.
He was going to plug in the laptop computer again this PM and rethink it.
In general I do not like electrical gremlins because they may return and make the car unreliable.
Thanks to all for trying. I was hoping someone would know about a harness recall like in the 90s or that it was an odd manifestation of the dashboard recall...