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FCA US to deliver thousands of Chrysler Pacifica plug-in Hybrid Minivans to Waymo’s self-driving service

Green Car Congress

FCA US LLC announced an agreement to supply “thousands” of Chrysler Pacifica plug-in Hybrid minivans ( earlier post ) to Waymo to support the launch of its driverless ride-hailing service. including Atlanta, San Francisco, Metro Detroit, Phoenix and Kirkland, Washington. Earlier post.)

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Chrysler/DOE Ram PHEV project exploring battery life modeling

Green Car Congress

Chrysler is showcasing its two-mode Ram Truck Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV), equipped with a 12 kWh, 33 Ah cell, 355V Li-ion battery pack from Electrovaya, at the Washington DC Auto Show. Probably the most common way [Chrysler] looks at battery calendar life is we do Arrhenius modeling. The RAM plug-in hybrid truck.

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Column: ‘Historical’ UAW accident, certainly — Jeep staff accident in Toledo is one way or the other a primary

Baua Electric

Thru its numerous company homeowners between Global Battle II and 1987 — Toledo’s Jeep operations transferred from Willys-Overland to Kaiser (1953) to American Motors (1970) — Toledo’s Jeep plant wasn’t part of what used to be after referred to as “The Big Three” till it used to be bought through Chrysler Corp.

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Smart Move

Revenge of the Electric Car

Smart will be launching a test fleet of 250 electric cars in selected areas, including: Portland, San Jose, Indianapolis, Orlando, and the Washington, D.C. and Chrysler Group LLC all have announced electric cars due out in the next few years.&#. and the Washington, D.C.-Boston – Boston Corridor. General Motors Corp.,

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Chrysler debuts all-electric minivan

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Chrysler debuts all-electric minivan Alisa PriddleThe Detroit News April 22, 2009 12:00 PM Chrysler LLC is celebrating Earth Day with the presentation of four all-electric minivans to the United States Postal Service in Washington today.

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Comedy CAFE Clowns Crack Me Up

Creative Greenius

Maybe some Washington Mutual stock instead? A lot of these weepy-eyed workers are the same ones who took sledge hammers to Japanese imports as Detroit’s clever response to high mileage, low maintenance cars for the people. Now that’s funny! Really Bob? Even MORE money for GM?

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Daimler/Mercedes Took over Daimler/Chrysler Sprinter PHEV program. which hopes to sell cars here in three to five years, used the Detroit Auto Show to display a prototype sedan it says can run 60 miles on batteries developed in-house and another 190 miles on a gas/electric system. Detroit Free Press ). Detroit News ).

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