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Opinion: Making Sense of the Stellantis Auto Show Decision

The Truth About Cars

Dodge’s newest product, the Hornet, launched in March 2023, and the next Charger/Charger Daytona isn’t ready for production yet. Chrysler sells just one model right now. This could be the canary in the coal mine for a company that has been bailed out twice in my lifetime and always seems to be less stable than Ford or GM.

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UCS analysis finds Hyundai-Kia with best sales-weighted new vehicle environmental performance in US in 2013

Green Car Congress

Despite this progress, UCS noted, Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler still have higher than average new fleet smog-forming and GHG emissions. Climate Change Coal Emissions Fuel Efficiency' UCS again assigned a score of 100 to the industry average, and index each automaker’s results to that average.

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Volt for Real?

Plug In Partners

Wait Don’t Tell Me” this past Saturday.The GM product boss said the vehicle he is most excited about, and the one he thinks will be the most significant for GM, is the Chevy Volt. The Volt is the plug-in hybrid car GM showed at last January’s Detroit Auto Show. But given the fact that something like 75% of driving in the U.S.

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US and China join forces: Good news for electric cars? The Green Piece

Green Cars News

Meanwhile, the US is determined to play catch-up after its leading brands, including General Motors and Chrysler, were left teetering on the edge of peril earlier this year in part because they had failed to move with the times and embrace fuel efficient cars. What does the partnership entail? So what does this mean for electric cars?

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Toyota "Moves"

Plug In Partners

But it also probably helped that Daimler-Chrysler has been delivering its first plug-in hybrid vans to big companies. Such changes voided the warranty, but CalCars founder Felix Kramer says he's pleased if his group has goaded Toyota into making a production plug-in - the group's goal all along.

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Electrified Blondes in Convertibles For Everyone!

Creative Greenius

Electric cars everywhere you looked, quiet as a mouse and making a total mockery out of General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler who could have been making these cars for the last decade, but instead had to be pushed to the brink of bankruptcy and shame-filled failure before they would start even talking about making these cars.

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Tennessee, Nissan and TVA forge a path for electric car | www.tennessean.com | The Tennessean

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Other carmakers plug in Other automakers are working on electric vehicles as well, including Chrysler LLC, which plans to provide the U.S. Postal Service with a fleet of 250 all-electric Chrysler Town & Country minivans in Michigan, North Carolina and the New York City area beginning later this year. Source: Nissan North America Inc.