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Major U.S. car brand to go full electric, will no longer offer internal combustion vehicles
wnd.com ^ | 1/5/2022 | Abby Leibing

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: automotive; chrysler; electric; electricvehicle; ev; nohemis; pc
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To: woodbutcher1963
How about the Neon?

How about all the people who are driving beater Neons right now? The people who fight for on street parking and live in row homes or in apartment complexes... or God forbid trailer parks. How does the electric car work for them? Where do they charge up before their shifts preparing the fast food all the swells of the world so desire? Working in the factories to manufacture the things that keep the cou try going? Sorting and delivering the Amazon packages the wine moms get mainline to their homes? There are secondary and tertiary effects to society that the central planners are deliberately ignoring.

61 posted on 01/06/2022 6:05:27 AM PST by jz638
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To: real saxophonist
Doesn’t Obama have a Chrysler 300?

As I recall, he did but traded it for a hybrid when he ran for the residency because of its greater appeal to the green gestapo.

62 posted on 01/06/2022 6:05:48 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Media Control is an anagram of Delta Omicron.)
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To: Houserino
It’s not moving fast, but ICE has been stagnant for 50+ years.

It's merely a mature technology. Again, what is the problem EVs are really trying to solve?

63 posted on 01/06/2022 6:06:10 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment
Off roaders can bring extra cans of gas, but how do you bring extra batteries? The weight would be tremendous.

Nah, a battery powered generator would be no bigger than a jerrycan...

64 posted on 01/06/2022 6:06:11 AM PST by null and void (81 million votes ≠ 81 million voters)
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To: dfwgator

Agree... but in today’s world all they want is handouts because it’s “expected” and no pay backs not to mention”loan forgiveness”.

It’s a mad world !!


65 posted on 01/06/2022 6:06:41 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: rktman

Major subsidies are hard to pass up.


66 posted on 01/06/2022 6:07:02 AM PST by bray (The Vax is fake)
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To: dfwgator

Power and range so far, it’ll take another 5+ years I’m sure to really be blatant. But it’s a growing tech and never bet against that. Ever.


67 posted on 01/06/2022 6:07:40 AM PST by Houserino
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To: READINABLUESTATE

Wonder how many electrics are being towed home from the snowstorm in DC?


68 posted on 01/06/2022 6:08:26 AM PST by bray (The Vax is fake)
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To: rktman

Are they eliminating Ram diesel trucks?


69 posted on 01/06/2022 6:08:53 AM PST by 6ppc (Democrats would have to climb Everest to reach the level of "scum of the earth")
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To: rktman

Didn’t Chrysler already announce that they’re not going to build cars anymore, just crossover SUVs and above?

Or was that another car company? Ford, maybe?


70 posted on 01/06/2022 6:09:08 AM PST by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: rktman

IMHO-

Prices are up and will remain up because of supply shortages both real and made up.

Auto makers are shifting things in how vehicles are marketed.

The old “build and push them” model is going away. Instead of dealerships being flooded by cars and trying to sell them, the Tesla “build on order” model is being adopted. That means you don’t have excess inventory and the pressure to sell. Also you don’t need massive dealerships etc. as in the past. Tesla originally wanted to go dealerless I believe.

As far as the electric car is concerned. When you artificially force things (through EPA requirements etc), and rush it, the outcome is usually not very good. The media might rave about it, because they see a liberal cause, but the actual consumer “wants” are not ideally met and you end up with all sorts of technical or even safety issues (example when the US ambitiously adopted the catalytic converter in 1975 and unleaded fuel).


71 posted on 01/06/2022 6:10:04 AM PST by Red6
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

They claim the 3.7,4.7 was a design from AMC but I don’t believe it. Anything that needs to have the whole front of the motor rebuilt every 100k has to be from Benz


72 posted on 01/06/2022 6:10:17 AM PST by Cowman
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To: rktman

Insanity. When all cars are electric, you can expect disastrous traffic jams on the interstates whenever there is any freezing rain. Good luck getting them started again. No putting 2 gallons in the tank and then off they go! Charge will take ten or more minutes. Expect massive jams going on to the next exit.

I seriously question whether humans deserve to be called homo SAPIENS. It should be homo stultus.


73 posted on 01/06/2022 6:10:35 AM PST by I want the USA back (Government is to be feared much more than the chicom virus.)
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To: Yo-Yo

That was Ford, and I miss the fusion. They still make Mustangs though, mostly EV and will be 100% EV before long.

That’s what I don’t get, this really is like trying to fight against transistors or nanotech. It’s going to happen on some scale, and probably sooner than later.


74 posted on 01/06/2022 6:10:51 AM PST by Houserino
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To: rktman

Well Bye Bye


75 posted on 01/06/2022 6:11:07 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Hot Tabasco

50 miles, if they tried to make it a SUV.


76 posted on 01/06/2022 6:11:22 AM PST by Jonty30 (I love giving directions, because it is like me to tell people where to go and how to get there.)
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To: rktman

77 posted on 01/06/2022 6:12:19 AM PST by deport
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To: rktman

Put a fork in them. They are done.


78 posted on 01/06/2022 6:13:07 AM PST by Roklok
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To: jz638

IF people are still driving NEONS right now they must be the best mechanics around. Neons were probably the worst new car produced by any major car manufacturer in the last 20 years.

Chysler’s quality has been on average the worst of all the major manufacturers for 30+ years. They should have been allowed to go bankrupt back in the 1980s.

Mercedes dumped them because of this. They were a lost cause .


79 posted on 01/06/2022 6:13:32 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: Cowman
"Chrysler was raped by Benz and co and never fully recovered. Then Obama brought in the Italians to solve the unreliable tired design..."

I find it very sad that Jeep, the vehicle that contributed so much to victory over the axis in WWII has subsequently been owned by German, and now Italian companies.

80 posted on 01/06/2022 6:13:42 AM PST by Joe 6-pack
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