Chrysler Fiat killing the goose that lays the golden egg.
Bye bye hemi V8.
Go woke go broke will not happen.
To big to fail.
Government will prop them up.
Amazes me that Stellantis would think killing the Hemi V8 is a good idea for a brand that exists solely to sell muscle, in order to turn their product line into golf carts.
Government has been propping up Chrysler and their successor corporate entities (Fiat, PSA, Stellantis) since 1981. The Hemi V8 was a great innovation in 1951, and it has evolved over the years managing to keep pace technologically, but like two-cycle motors, reached the point of being unacceptable to the CO2 purists.
But combustion of hydrocarbon fuels (incorrectly called “fossil fuels”, a total misnomer) produces CO2, so a whole new approach to automotive power systems had to be introduced, to get to “zero-carbon” emission standards, a fool’s errand on the best of days. Carbon monoxide is in fact a tasteless, colorless and toxic emission, but its chemical relative, carbon dioxide, is also a tasteless and colorless gas, but NOT toxic, and in fact, it is essential to support life as we know it.
Battery technology, and recharging the batteries from the electric grid that powers homes and industry, seemed like a possible alternative, but alas, neither the grid or the battery technology is up to the task of achieving “zero-carbon” emissions. The electric grid is largely powered by hydrocarbon fuels, coal, petroleum, and natural gas, and the point production of carbon dioxide is simply moved away from the vehicle to a point far removed. The electric grid as it now exists shall be unable to supply the current necessary to keep all the battery-powered vehicles charged up, and the battery technology itself, because of the many steps necessary to produce them, together create MANY times the carbon emissions that could be attributed to an equivalent number of hydrocarbon-fueled vehicles.
And at exorbitant cost.