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2024 Dodge Charger Daytona: the ‘Brotherhood of Muscle’ goes electric – Charged EVs

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Dodge says the EVs that replace them will be just as noisy. The 2024 Dodge Charger Daytona is a Detroit anomaly: it’s a passenger car in an age of trucks and SUVs, it’s battery-electric when U.S. When everyone else is going left,” said Dodge CEO Tim Kuniskis, “we [Dodge] wanna go right.”

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Dodge CEO Says Electrification Won’t Spoil American Muscle

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While Tesla has managed to solidify the United States as the dominant purveyor of all-electric vehicles, American performance has long been synonymous with exceptionally large motors boasting the kind of oomph foreign manufacturers might consider excessive at a price point that seems downright reasonable. The period was marked by U.S.

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What’s the Most Environmental Thing To Do When a Car’s Engine Dies

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The manufacturing of new cars, even electric ones, generates heavy emissions, contributing to pollution. Large automotive conglomerates like Stellantis (parent company of well-known brands like Ram, Maserati, Jeep, Chrysler and Dodge) are now focusing on extending car lifetimes and reusing parts to reduce carbon emissions.

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Chrysler to introduce PHEV models in 2016 and 2017 to meet ZEV requirements; new FCA gasoline engine family coming in 2015

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Tim Kuniskis’ (President and CEO Dodge Brand) Investor Day presentation emphasized brand attitude and the performance orientation of the brand. “We FCA’s twin drivers are regulatory compliance and developing and producing increasingly more fuel-efficient vehicles which customers want to buy, he said. Integrated exhaust manifold.

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2024 Alfa Romeo Tonale Review — Bada Bing

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liter turbocharged four-cylinder paired with an electric motor on the rear axle stinks of European emissions compliance. Alfa Romeo has likewise been talking a big game about going all-electric, making me wonder how their holdover combustion vehicles are going to fare when nobody running the business wants you to buy them.

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EV myths busted: Are electric vehicles safer than gas-powered cars?

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Electric vehicles have historically received a bad reputation for concerns around safety. Issues like thermal runaway, electrocution, and reports of inextinguishable fires plagued the pioneering electric vehicles. Useful terms: Internal Combustion Engine Vehicle (ICEV) and Electric Vehicle (EV). In fact, EVs have just 25.1

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FEV Showcased Partner and Internal Advanced Hybrid Development Projects at SAE World Congress; Demonstrations of Capability

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Pcific Gas & Electric will buy two this year ( earlier post ), and West said that they have some 12,000 soft orders from utilities for a truck version of the H3 ReEV drivetrain (e.g., SIDI turbocharged engine provides electrical power. Powertrain and electrical packaging. Earlier post.). Hybrid controller development.

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