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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Chrysler’s sales in the USA have been declining for years. This is a good idea for them to focus on one market.
Have you every considered buying a Chrysler this century?
“Tesla’s has not made a dime”
Tesla made a 1.1 billion dollar profit in 4th gtr 2021.
They sold 495k cars in 2020 and 895k cars in 2021 and could have sold 200k more but the supply chain issues held them back.
Ev cars are the future
Electric cars are the old technology. They preceded steam powered cars, piston engines cars, rotary engine cars, and turbine engine cars.
What's changed is that automobiles have become standardized enough that government bureaucrats can stick their fingers in the process.
Finding and mining the components for batteries increases in difficulty. Melting and recycling internal combustion engines doesn't require finding and mining more iron or aluminum.
Just put a portable generator in the trunk, with a 20 gallon gas tank, and you’re good go!
My fully gas Buick sedan is 5 years old now I brought it new but for the last 2 years the auto dealer and others have been offering me more than I paid for it new ...
Thats never happened before ...
True, and there will be manufacturers making petrol, diesel etc cars. Most likely the commuter, smaller cars will be all electric soon as that just makes sense. But ice cars and trucks will be available as long as there is a demand.
If nuclear can provide the recharge quickly and batteries can be improved substantially, why not?
EV’s aren’t ‘new’ in that sense of time, but they are the latest tech wave. When has it ever been a good idea to put your money against the latest tech wave?
Luddite economics rarely works. It’s some times off from being economical for most people, but it’s quickly changing. ICE cars are rising in price so fast it’s hard to keep up. EV’s are dropping at least as fast.
You think that's just the market causing that?
“Everything changes” and “nothing stays the same forever” are of course perennial maxims.
However, when everything changes at once, the word is “apocalypse.”
Doesn’t matter, it’s the truth even if it’s alien conspiracies.
And always will be.
Geomagnetic attenuation and amplification to facilitate vehicles that make no ground contact.
You need to understand. The government is making these decisions.
To be fair, you could use a Chrysler if you have a boat. You can us the car for a boat anchor. 😉
50 miles if they make it an SUV
Toyota is going all electric. All their current cars have a 450 mile range and said 600 miles is the goal in 2 years
They have a new EV Tundra coming out in 2023 that is going to be a game changer.
Btw the new Mercedes EV just went 690 miles on a single charge
“Doncha mean a Fiat? Fix It Again, Tony!
Chrysler was a terrible car, long before Mercedes bought them. After losing billions, the Germans sold them to the Italians. Fiat and Chrysler were a match made in the slums. Two crap companies merged into one even larger, and even crappies company.”
Yeah, that merger was the final end of the Jeep legacy. They are just Fiat road car garbage now.
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