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 have been reading Teslas getting 80% charge in 15 minutes and the remainder in 1 hour. Try that with a wife and kids on a hot day.
My family had a car dealership in the 70’s. Chrysler Plymouth. They were giving Superbirds away for $3K. They couldn’t get them off the lot. Now $250K for one in running condition.
“The demand should be driving it. It isn’t”
200,000+ and growing people have pre ordered the new Ford Lightning.
Tesla sold approx 485k cars in 2020, they sold 900k in 2021 and said they could have sold another 200k but supply chain issues and parts shortages fubared that.
Toyota is coming out with 2 new Ev in 2022 and 2023 that they claim will be game changers.
“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”
Yep in my area they tore up railroad tracks 10 years ago going to mines and storage depots. Now they are putting them back in.
I suspect this will all go the way of global warming...I mean climate deviation...I mean climate change. lol
Sales of these vehicle will suck. We still live in a capitalist society and profits are the driving force.
These vehicles are expensive to the point of pushing lower income folks out of the market. Let’s see how lower to lower middle-income folks like their options on the car lot.
Little tiny electric smart cars for the paupers in life. Battery life for 75miles, then they must use the peddles.
Furthermore, when folks need to get to work or drive all over town to perform their work and there are power outages
for whatever reason and folks cannot charge their vehicles.
Yea...be some really unhappy folks.
There is a guy over in Europe that transported his electric vehicle to a quarry it looked like and blew the damn thing up after finding out how much it would cost to replace the batteries. lol
https://electrek.co/2021/12/23/tesla-owner-blows-up-model-s-dynamite-battery-replacement/
“I have been reading Teslas getting 80% charge in 15 minutes “
Looking good. One stop per day for ‘fuel’ traveling.
You got something right after backing off your claim that Toyota was going all electric by 2030.
Lexus is going all electric by then.
It's wise to watch what Toyota is doing. No other automaker is as shrewd as Toyota.
And, yeah, those MOPAR guys will be killing each other for an EV to compete with Tesla just like hardcore Mustang guys are choosing the Mustang Mach-E over the GT350 or GT500.
“A couple days ago I saw some battery data that claimed electric vehicle mileage declines by 70% when the temperature goes under 30 degrees F.”
You’ll also notice that EV speeds are stated at 70mph when they state ranges. At 75mph it drops significantly.
I have Mexican Strat and a Fender P bass.
What do you play?
“Again, what is the problem EVs are really trying to solve?”
Individual freedom of movement. Put people at the mercy of recharging capacity and eventually pubic transportation.
The latest Tesla technology provides a pretty good splash and go for a 15 minute charge. A charge to ~50%-~60% is doable in 15 min. The problem in many parts of flyover country, is Tesla hasn't upgraded their charging stations so charging times are much longer.
It's impossible to know what they'd actually be if not for the government subsidies.
Now tell me again how the market/automakers are driving the EV hype and not the government.
My dad worked for Ford in 1965 and could have bought up to 7 cars a month without a being classified as a dealer. He bought the family a 1965 Galaxie 500 and my oldest sister a a 289 Mustang with the Pony interior. Nothing else.
May years later, my brother and I asked him why he didn’t buy a 427 Cobra at cost? He responded What the hell would I Need that thing for. We told him they were only worth close to a million at that time...
I can't see any electric SUV or truck hauling a trailer with two snowmobiles the 280 miles to northern Michigan for a weekend of sledding. Especially in bad snow conditions when speeds are reduced to maybe 40 MPH.....
A snowmobile company in Canada is coming out with electric sleds that will supposedly get 60 - 100 miles per charge. If you're 10 miles out on a trail on your way back to your vehicle and the battery dies, you are truly screwed.
Well, buh-bye
After 25 years, the ownership cost for the three vehicles is as follows:
Tesla Model 3: $110,368
Toyota RAV 4: $111,464
BMW 3 Series: $151,880
https://www.self.inc/info/electric-cars-vs-gas-cars-cost/
worthless article and analysis but many many will chose the tesla based on the article because they don’t own a Thinking Cap.
“just like hardcore Mustang guys are choosing the Mustang Mach-E over the GT350 or GT500”
Are you realy comparing a Tesla car that goes 8.94 in the quarter to the Mach-E suv?
I remember all my GM car guy friends who swore they would never buy another GM due to the bailout. When the Camaro SS came out in that new body style style everyone bought one or wished they had one.
When the new EV Hellcat comes out Mopar guys will be lined up for blocks to own the future fastest production car made.
I wonder what the envirojackasses intend to do with all those used batteries. Bury them somewhere in the Nevada desert?
Not in the city. The power plants are mostly outside of the city. No emissions in the city. The nickel mines to make the batteries are far from the city, some are destroying the rainforest somewhere. The landfills where all the crap ends up aren't in the city either.
Electric is ideal in the city because it is clean and quiet. No pollution inside a parking garage for example.
25 years from now our car situation will be just like Cuba’s, keeping the old cars on the road.
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