Posted on 01/06/2022 5:43:45 AM PST by rktman
Automaker Chrysler just announced plans to go completely electric by 2028, anticipating the release of its first electric vehicle by 2025.
Chrysler announced the plans along with a new AI-enabled vehicle system powered by a battery that the company says can travel 350 to 400 miles per charge, as The Associated Press reported.
Chrysler is part of Europe’s Stellantis, which last month announced a new strategy to embed AI-enabled software into millions of vehicles across its 14 different brands. This could gain Stellantis $22.6 billion in annual revenue by 2030.
This is all part of the race among automakers to produce more completely electric and hybrid cars that also have more autonomous driving features. Overall, this would begin shifting cars away from gasoline-powered engines.
As one of the main American brands of Stellantis, Chrysler will be on the front lines of this change in the auto industry in North America.
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I choked when I saw the price tag on a Pacer, new back in 1976. $5000? NO WAY!
>>What is wrong with people? OMG batteries are worse polluters than gasoline.<<
Clean burning Natural Gas or Hydrogen fuel technologies. Never understood the industry’s aversion to these solutions.
If you work in just about any warehouse or municipal governments, LNG vehicles are commonly used.
Forklifts buzzing all about within these huge distribution centers...all burning LNG or Propane. Very very low emissions.
This is the number one reason I won't buy one.
So you won’t release your first all electric until 2025, but then 3 years later will have zero internal combustion engines....
Well Chrysler brand directly makes 2 vehicles, that’s it anymore..... 300 and the Pacifica Mini van.
If they are saying nothing with a Chrysler name badge will have an internal combustion engine... that’s a whopping 2 models a present.
Dodge is down to 3 models left if memory serves, an SUV, and 2 Cars.. oh, and then the RAM trucks.
Then there is Jeep, which I think has 6 actual models...
If they are saying nothing but electric across all their brands, in 3 years, good luck with that.
If its hey, we will only sell an electric 300 and Pacifica... who cares?
Take government out of the mix and there would be NO electric vehicles.
This will be a spectacular failure.
The demand should be driving it. It isn’t.
If making possum sandwiches was cheaper and much easier would McDonalds be switching all their sandwiches to possum?
Toyota is not going full electric and has argued against government changes,
I sure as hell didn’t ask to bail them out back in 1977.
“Natural gas is a fossil fuel, therefore evil and will be banned like coal and nuclear”
Gas companies have spent 100’s of billions in pumps, lines, transfer stations etc etc in my area.
Under Biden, gas companies in 2021. have pumped a RECORD amount of natural gas in the marcellus-Utica region. Right under our farm.
Under Biden in 2021 alone 326 new well permits were issued in my county and 2 county below me. Only 72 were issued under Trump in 4 years.
Am I giving credit to Biden NOOOOO
I am pointing out don’t believe what you read. Biden and democrat elites may tell their far left base one thing but turn around and wink wink to the gas companies.
Also under Biden, Consol coal in my area has mined near record amounts of coal. Consol is begging for retired miners to return. My couisn is a retired mine boss. Consol paid him 100k bonus money to come out of retirement and sign a 3 year contract...which he took
What do EVs let you do that ICE cars don’t? This is a lateral move.
Its going to be ugly folks. We're going from supply chain reality to transportation chain reality. The Electric Vehicle echo chamber is going to have us all walking and paying $4 per quart for fuel. Progressives call that progress when the camera is off.
Only for the short term. They're propaganda is for the next generation, they are just waiting for all of us old farts to die off.
Gargantuan lemmings are now the captains of American industries. Simply astonishing.
“I’m a serious MOPAR gear head, but I won’t be buying any of their electric models”
Tesla came out a few months ago with a stock production car that went 8.94 in the quarter. Their version of the hellcat. Fastest production time even beating the Hellcat.
Chryslers head of their performance division has said they are coming out with an electric hellcat and their goal is to beat the Tesla.
Mopar guys will be lining up in droves.
And just think you could have got any 65 Shelby built car (GT350, 289 Cobra, or 427 Cobra) for between $4,000-$7,500 new.
That is the way they do it in coastal California. If there is a high end Tesla in the driveway, there is also likely to be high end luxury car there too..
Every set of train tracks in my region is pulling and pushing 700 car long lines of coal bound east, west, north, and south. More than I have ever seen.
“Toyota is not going full electric and has argued against government changes”
Toyota is spending 70 billion on EV’s and said they will have 30 EV’s in their lineup by 2030. Lexus will be 100% elctric by 2035 according to Toyota.
Mercedes is going 100% elctric
EV’s are the future.
That’s only in the first year of the Ron Klain dictatorship - not everything can be accomplished at once - look at the enormous strides they have taken to destroy America in just one year - fossil fuel anything is going to be destroyed and we will freeze in the dark winters and sweat to death in the summers.
What amazing destructive accomplishments will they give this year? 2023? 2024?
I have a pretty pristine last edition Mercury Grand Marquis that I keep not selling. Think I’ll take some pains to store it better.
Stellantis? Is that itie for fool?
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