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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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.
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.
It's merely a mature technology. Again, what is the problem EVs are really trying to solve?
Nah, a battery powered generator would be no bigger than a jerrycan...
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 !!
Major subsidies are hard to pass up.
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.
Wonder how many electrics are being towed home from the snowstorm in DC?
Are they eliminating Ram diesel trucks?
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?
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).
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
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.
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.
Well Bye Bye
50 miles, if they tried to make it a SUV.
Put a fork in them. They are done.
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 .
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.
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