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The Truth About Cars
JULY 3, 2023
Chrysler revolutionized the American family-hauler world in the 1984 model year when the Plymouth Voyager and Dodge Caravan minivans first appeared. Here's an '87 that received the camper-conversion treatment, now residing in a Northern California car graveyard. Of course, that price was before the conversion treatment.
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Clean Fleet Report
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Chrysler has the market locked-up for anyone needing a seven passenger vehicle that can go a very long way on a tank of fuel. Chrysler calls it a “multipurpose vehicle,” but we will stick with modern minivan. The 2022 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid has a gasoline-powered 3.6-liter Impressive Efficiency for Seven. How It Works.
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Clean Fleet Report
JUNE 16, 2021
Photos by John Faulkner and Chrysler. The newly styled 2021 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid is ready for your test drive. When Clean Fleet Report first reviewed the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid in 2017, it was the only electrified minivan on the market. Impressive Efficiency. Impressive Luxury. Story by John Faulkner. Ready to ride.
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Green Car Reports
DECEMBER 7, 2015
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles recently unveiled a fleet of natural-gas vehicles, but they won't be sold to consumers. That's because they're semi trucks, used to deliver parts to assembly plants from FCA suppliers and component-manufacturing facilities.
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Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 12, 2009
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Green Car Congress
JULY 25, 2011
Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. ECD), a global manufacturer of thin-film flexible solar laminate products and systems for the building-integrated and commercial rooftop markets, has initiated a process to divest its Ovonic Battery Company (OBC) subsidiary.
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MAY 30, 2012
Now Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne has admitted that his company's upcoming electric Fiat 500 conversion is.
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Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 18, 2017
Italgas is renewing its entire company fleet with methane-powered vehicles from Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.The first deliveries have begun in Turin, with similar deliveries to be made in Rome and Naples—two of the main cities where the Italgas Group operates—over the next few days.
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Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 21, 2017
Engineers from Fiat-Chrysler Automobiles Inc. The challenge is to achieve high NO x conversion with minimal fuel penalty while sustaining long catalyst life. Fiat-Chrysler and Johnson Matthey will bring their industrial expertise in vehicles and catalysts, respectively. and Johnson Matthey Inc.
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Green Car Reports
JANUARY 15, 2010
We'd be remiss if we didn't at least nod to the electric Fiat 500 displayed within the many brands on the Chrysler stand. We've written before about an earlier electric Fiat 500 conversion shown 18 months ago at the London Motor Show, but this one came with far less info. Chrysler mounted a new display at Detroit this year.
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Green Car Congress
MARCH 12, 2010
Michigan-based electric powertrain company ALTe LLC ( earlier post ) revealed its demonstrator Ford F-150 range-extended electric vehicle conversion at the 2010 National Truck Equipment Association (NTEA) Work Truck Show and Green Truck Summit. Tags: Conversions Electric (Battery) Hybrids Plug-ins. John Thomas. Earlier post.).
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The Truth About Cars
JANUARY 31, 2024
Conversely, Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) show an average of 146 percent more problems compared to ICE vehicles. manufacturers face challenges, with Buick being the highest-ranked domestic brand at 12th place, and Chrysler ranking last. This variance highlights the diverse performance of electrified vehicles.
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Clean Fleet Report
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
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. The manufacturing of new cars, even electric ones, generates heavy emissions, contributing to pollution.
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Baua Electric
JUNE 19, 2023
Beaton has since been promoted to basic supervisor of Halifax Chrysler-Dodge, additionally owned by means of Dartmouth-based Steele Auto Team, which has 51 dealerships in Atlantic Canada and 8 in Texas. Chris Beaton, upcoming the dealership’s gross sales supervisor, heard of the corporate and pitched the speculation of operating with it.
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Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 26, 2009
Bright eSolutions will offer clients expert guidance on a variety of strategies in the field of EV/PHEV vehicle development, from EV powertrain integration and conversions, to aerodynamics and lightweighting, to battery cell engineering. Conversions. Tags: Conversions Hybrids Plug-ins. Vehicle Engineering. Energy Storage.
Clean Fleet Report
OCTOBER 14, 2022
I appreciate cleanfleetreport.com for allowing me to weigh in on the conversation about new cars and their impact on our lives. Chrysler was the first to demonstrate this vulnerability—thankfully through the use of White Hat hackers. This article may contain affiliate links. The First Demonstration.
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Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 28, 2015
In Europe, Volkswagen is challenging longtime LD NGV leader Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA). Among suppliers, Landi Renzo and Fuel System Solution’s IMPCO and BRC continue to lead the conversion market while Magneti Marelli, Westport, and Bosch are leaders among component suppliers.
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Green Car Congress
JANUARY 4, 2017
Panasonic Automotive is building on Bluemix, IBM’s cloud platform, which enables access to Watson APIs including Conversation, Natural Language Classifier, Text to Speech, Speech to Text and Personality Insights. —David Miller, General Manager, Global Industrial Sector. Panasonic, Qualcomm and Android.
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Green Car Congress
JUNE 28, 2013
The new turbo-diesel is designed and produced by VM Motori, a Chrysler Group diesel engine supplier since 1992. DEF is commonly available fuel stations and is also offered by Mopar, Chrysler Group’s dealer network and and Cummins dealers and distributors. The engine, with its 16.5:1 The DEF tank holds eight gallons of fluid.
268 Green Car Congress
AUGUST 10, 2011
This project will develop a novel low cost route to carbon fiber using a lignin/PAN hybrid precursor and carbon fiber conversion technologies leading to high performance, low-cost carbon fiber. Chrysler Group LLC. Solid state thermoelectric energy conversion devices. Zoltek Companies, Inc. 10,000,000. 10,000,000.
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Green Car Congress
MAY 4, 2009
Michigan State is partnering with Chrysler LLC for this effort. The University of Houston (Houston, Texas) has been selected for negotiation of an award for a project to develop coupled NO x storage and reduction, and SCR that enables a high conversion of NO x under the lean conditions typical to a diesel or lean burn gasoline engine.
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Clean Fleet Report
DECEMBER 12, 2021
So why do Kia, Honda, Toyota and Chrysler continue to make these boxy people movers? That would give it fuel economy on par with the Chrysler Pacifica and Toyota Sienna, which are both hybrids, although the Pacifica retains the edge as the only minivan that can plug in. Road Test: 2021 Chrysler Pacifica Plug-in Hybrid.
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Green Car Congress
JANUARY 22, 2011
Conversely, responses for hybrid vehicles dropped in 2011, and basic/introduction cars fell more than 20 percentage points from last year. Chrysler also saw a double-digit increase in the number of executives predicting improvement—finishing at 24% this year versus just 7.5%
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Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 8, 2011
Auto manufacturers such as Chrysler, BYD, Coda, Honda, Mitsubishi, Hyundai, Toyota, Volkswagen and Volvo are not included in this table, but have announced or are expected to introduce EVs in this time period, DOE said.
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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. At that point, we expect the aftermarket companies prices to have come down sufficiently so that their conversions will be attractive to owners of hundreds of thousands of hybrids already on the road. So far, most start as hybrids.
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Green Car Congress
AUGUST 30, 2011
One of the chief areas of concern is the cold-start period, in which the catalytic converter is below the light-off temperature and the conversion of emissions is low. The partnership with USCAR brings significant industrial input from all three major North American automotive manufacturers—Ford, General Motors and Chrysler.
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Electric Auto Association
APRIL 26, 2021
Soon, this included conversations with his clients and fellow real estate agents about smart home technology, energy efficiency, and solar PV. “I It’s a conversation we need to have in our sustainability advisory group, and then hopefully we can move the conversation up to the executive leadership level,” he said.
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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 22, 2009
Subscribe Green News Events Manufacturers Region New Cars Used Cars Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Chrysler Chrysler unveils new electric minivan for the US Postal Service by Sam Abuelsamid on Apr 22nd 2009 at 10:05AM Chrysler U.S. Apr 22, 2009 - Chrysler invented the minivan 25 years ago. Postal Service for mail delivery.
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Green Car Congress
APRIL 8, 2009
The two-mode hybrid technology in the ML 450 HYBRID is derived from the fundamental work undertaken by the Global Hybrid Cooperation, which brought together research and development work undertaken by Daimler AG, BMW Group, General Motors and Chrysler. The ML 450 HYBRID was specifically developed for the North American market.
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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014
Ford, GM and Chrysler has found that, by increasing the volume of ethanol, the refining sector could produce hydrocarbon blendstocks for oxygenate blending (BOBs) yielding finished E20 and E30 gasolines with higher octane ratings at modest additional refining cost (ARC): e.g., ? E20 95 RON ?
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Green Car Congress
AUGUST 5, 2009
Large automakers based in Michigan, including GM, Chrysler, and Ford, will receive a total of more than $400 million to manufacture thousands of advanced hybrid and electric vehicles as well as batteries and electric drive components. Chrysler LLC. $70. Manufacturing: Warren, MI and St. Louis, MO; Deployment: 11 partner fleets.
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APRIL 16, 2009
Video previous next Clock Ticking for Chrysler 1:07 Honda Fits Crash Test 0:36 Smart ForTwos Crash Test 0:33 Editors Picks previous next Tool City Weathers Downturn Contemporaries a World Apart Beyond Guitar Hero Does Unemployment Presage Crime? The quality of conversations can deteriorate when real identities are not provided.
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APRIL 28, 2009
Subscribe Green News Events Manufacturers Region New Cars Used Cars Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Chrysler , Dodge , AutoblogGreen Exclusive , SAE World Congress Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day by Sebastian Blanco on Apr 22nd 2009 at 7:48PM Two months ago we went for a ride in the Dodge Circuit EV.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 22, 2009
For years now, inventors and sellers of electric car conversion kits have been blasting traditional automakers for not providing the 100 m.p.g. Webster More autos headlines GM: We wont make June debt payment Granholm: Bailed-out banks suffocating Chrysler Mich. The 100 m.p.g.
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Green Car Congress
AUGUST 14, 2014
Chrysler Group LLC. This project will develop new catalysts to demonstrate a minimum of 90% conversion efficiency of engine produced NO x during portions of the FTP test near 150 °C. Development of High Performance Low Temperature Catalysts for Exhaust Aftertreatment (Area of Interest 8). Ford Motor Company. 1,352,376.
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EV Central
NOVEMBER 25, 2022
Don’t hold your breath for Australia… Chrysler luxury EV – now part of Stellantis, Chrysler has big EV plans, including a high-tech luxury EV that was previewed as a concept. Roev EV conversions – Aussie company Roev will offer EV conversions of existing Ford Ranger and Toyota Hilux models.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
Daimler/Mercedes Took over Daimler/Chrysler Sprinter PHEV program. Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) Showed BlueZERO E-CELL PLUS series PHEV concept in December 08.
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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 28, 2009
Theres a company in Guernsey (a UK island) which does conversions (the Mk1 shape), but I want a current shape model and a 60 mile range is just fine. The first one was the Zytek design you mentioned, but this is a 2nd "new and improved" design from Tesla, with more power, higher speed and greater range. Follow us on Twitter!
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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
and Chrysler struggle to come up with business plans that regulators will embrace. and Chrysler. .&# and Chrysler. Then they are driving by electric car conversions every day and not seeing them. rolls toward bankruptcy. Financial aid for such projects has been put on hold as G.M. Whatever B.C.G.’s
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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
Near the end of our conversation, I ask Wang about the company name. More Two very different drivers The leaders charged with saving GM and Chrysler are known for wielding a sharp pencil. More Fiat: Chryslers Italian style Americans could see some fresh Italian faces if Chrylsers deal with Fiat goes through. 24.17% CBS Corp 6.76
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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
Let’s consider a simple example, say an EV conversion that has a 120V pack and a range of around 30 miles. Chrysler used this for their EPIC Minivan and could charge at a rate of about one mile per minute. When GM installed chargers for the EV1 they used a 50amp 220V circuit that could pump over 6KW into the batteries.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
EPA declares CO2 a “threat to public health&# Alternative Energy Stocks The Time is Right for Gas-guzzler to Dual-mode EV Conversions Joel Makower: Two Steps Forward The Seven Sins of Greenwashing: Is Everybody Lying? " Best of the Blogroll Maria Energia Piceance Basin: Learning How to Drill for Natural Gas Clean Break U.S. SZ (1) 6753.T
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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
Chrysler alone, for instance, may have 3 different battery pack shapes in its upcoming models. Third, I dont understand why people feel it available in message chatting to speak in a manner they would doubtless not use in personal conversation. Finally, there are charging stations. It does not reflect well upon you.
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APRIL 16, 2009
In most conversions cost is about the same because of needless weight. April 12, 2009 2:08 pm Link Obama’s “Social Democratic&# dream will be further unveiled after the failure of GM and Chrysler is certain and on the books. Lead batts are around 98% recycled. Portland is already an EV center and has been for 15 yrs.
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