Currently, Chrysler is road-testing 100 ENVI vehicles and addressing issues such as the cost and “robustness” of the vehicle batteries. Chrysler is considering leasing the batteries in order to keep consumer cost down – or establishing a “only pay for what you use” strategy
Source: Examiner.com
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The plug-in rechargeable cars are part of an effort to reduce fuel consumption by 2 percent by 2015, the Army said in a statement today. The vehicles will go into the service’s on-base transportation fleets. Between 2012 and 2015, Chrysler says it will be rolling out fully engineered EVs. It wants to be producing half a million of them by 2013. The paper cites a senior official of China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology– the state regulator of China’s auto industry– who dropped the hint that “the auto manufacturing giants in China, such as Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) and Dongfeng Motor Corporation, have the capability and intention to buy some assets of the two crisis-plagued American automakers.” [...] The move will leave Chrysler without an alternative powertrain model for at least a year and probably longer. No other models are in line to get hybridized, though last month Chrysler unveiled two plug-in hybrids and a pure electric car, saying it would produce one of the models — either a Jeep Wrangler, a Chrysler Town & Country or a two-seat sports car — by late 2010. [...] DETROIT — Before General Motors began exploring a possible merger with Chrysler — talks that first came to light on Friday — G. M. proposed a similar deal with its other cross-town rival, the Ford Motor Company, two people with knowledge of the talks said Saturday.Source: NY Times General Motors Corp. is in talks with Cerberus Capital Management LP about a possible merger with Chrysler LLC, a person familiar with the matter said late Friday. The next year and a half will see the re-birth of the electric car. And none other than GE — that’s right, General Electric, will be playing a big role in this transformation of transportation by applying its know-how to both the power grid and the power pack.
DETROIT — Chrysler LLC, in a rush to develop new, fuel-efficient vehicles, is in advanced talks about using batteries made by A123 Systems Inc. in an electric car due to be launched by 2011, people familiar with the matter said. Chrysler LLC said Friday it is preparing to reveal some of its future plans to its dealers next week, and one dealer said they’ll get a look at the next-generation electric vehicles the automaker is developing. Democratic Congressional leaders said on Tuesday they intend to support U.S. auto companies with at least $25 billion in low interest loans, according to a Reuters report. [...] GE is teaming with Chrysler LLC to demonstrate technology called a dual-battery energy storage system. GE executives suggest that they are interested in supplying plug-in hybrid components to automakers. |
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