The Truth About Cars

MARCH 13, 2024

The world lost one of its preeminent car designers today, as Marcello Gandini has passed away at the age of 85. Though perhaps best known for the flashy and outrageous Lamborghini Countach, Gandini’s pen was applied to many other Italian, German, French, British, Japanese, and Swedish concepts and production designs.

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Electrek

JULY 28, 2023

Although reports have claimed Chrysler will not be building the Airflow EV concept, the brand’s chief designer, Ralph Gilles, cleared things up this week. Gilles said the Airflow concept was “just the beginning,” adding Chrysler’s first EV will take the brand in a new direction.

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Electrek

MAY 18, 2023

Chrysler’s first fully electric vehicle will not look like or be called the Airflow concept officially unveiled at CES last year. According to the brand’s new chief designer, Chrysler will take a new, more modern direction with its first EV.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

TO THE EDITOR: I may now not agree extra with Stellantis design important Ralph Gilles at the timelessness of the design of the outgoing Chrysler 300 (“Looking back on Chrysler 300’s run as a pop culture staple,” autonews.com, Aug.

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EV Specifications

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Chrysler will launch the brand’s.

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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 New Design. Impressive Efficiency for Seven.

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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 Congress

JANUARY 30, 2018

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. This collaboration between Waymo and FCA engineers enabled the teams to design a self-driving vehicle built on a mass production platform.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Franz von Holzhausen, the chief designer at Tesla, is among several featured designers guiding an online automotive course launched by the Petersen Automotive Museum and Yellowbrick, which focuses on online education and career exploration. Other designers guiding the course are: Ralph Gilles, Chief Design Officer at Stellantis.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 6, 2023

The automotive world recently lost a giant of design. He had stints at Ford, Volvo, Chrysler, Rolls-Royce, and others. Though his impact was felt across the automotive ecosystem, some of Horbury’s most impactful work happened at Volvo, where he led the design team in the early 1990s – one of the automaker’s most transformative periods.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2013

Chrysler Group is working with NextEnergy to evaluate vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology using four all-electric minivans. The two-year Chrysler-NextEnergy partnership launched in 2011 and has been gathering data from four Chrysler Town & Country minivans equipped with all-electric powertrains.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2018

Fiat Chrysler will phase out diesel engines in its passenger cars sold in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) market by 2021, according to company executives presenting at FCA Capital Markets day in Balocco, Italy. The company, however, will still offer diesel in its light commercial vehicles across its brands. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2012

Three plug-in hybrid-electric Chrysler Town & Country minivans ( earlier post ) went into service with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), bringing to 25 the total number of such vehicles on US roads. Two additional plug-in hybrid minivans will be retained by Chrysler Group engineers. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2017

BorgWarner supplies its sprag one-way clutch for the 2017 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid, the first FCA US LLC mass-produced plug-in hybrid electric vehicle and the industry’s first PHEV minivan. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Chrysler Group LLC has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) relating to a proposed initial public offering of common shares. —Chrysler S-1. Chrysler is exploring ways to optimize vehicle weight, aerodynamic drag, tire performance, braking drag and driveline losses.

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Baua Electric

JULY 1, 2023

Horbury began his occupation in 1974 at Chrysler UK. His first process in just about a part century of operating in car was once designing the grille, headlamps and bumpers of the Chrysler SIMCA Horizon little hatchback, which went onto to win the 1979 Ecu Automobile of the Time award. He moved to Ford U.Okay. ” Douglas A.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2011

was recently recognized as an engineering services supplier to a joint Chrysler/EPA initiative to integrate a hydraulic hybrid propulsion system into a Chrysler minivan. The program was announced by Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson on 19 January. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2015

Chrysler (FCA US LLC) is recalling certain model year 2013-2015 Fiat 500 EV vehicles manufactured 27 March 2012, to 1 November 2014. In the event that the BPCM places the battery in limp home mode, by design there should be no requests to accept regenerative current to the battery. Potential number of units affected is 5,660.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2017

The winner of the Full Vehicle category was the 2017 Chrysler Pacifica, which is 249 pounds (113 kilograms) lighter than its predecessor. 2017 Chrysler Pacifica. All-new 2017 Chrysler Pacifica body structure 72% high-strength steel. Weight reduction is a key contributor to improved fuel economy. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2016

The Google Self-Driving Car Project and FCA announced will collaborate to integrate Google’s self-driving technology into all-new 2017 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans ( earlier post ) to expand Google’s existing self-driving test program. Engineering responsibilities will be shared based on each company’s respective expertise.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2015

The US Department of Transportation’s (DOT’s) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) will hold a public hearing to determine whether automaker Fiat Chrysler has failed to remedy safety defects and issue required notices in 20 recalls. Any auto defect that compromises the safety of our driving public is unacceptable.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2014

Chrysler Group is offering fuel-saving Engine Stop-Start (ESS) technology as standard equipment on certain models of the award-winning 2015 Jeep Cherokee mid-size SUV and 2015 Chrysler 200 mid-size sedan. Chrysler 200 customers who opt for the 2.4-liter Chrysler 200 customers who opt for the 2.4-liter

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Chrysler Group LLC has entered a 5-year, $18.2-million For McMaster, the project partnership is one of three new partnerships with Chrysler, the federal government and other auto industry leaders worth a combined $24 million. Chrysler Group will invest $9.25 million in cash and in-kind contributions, with an additional $8.93

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Baua Electric

JULY 1, 2023

Peter Stevens, former Lotus head of design and now a design marketing consultant, was once Horbury’s former lecturer on the prestigious Royal School of Artwork in London. He stated Horbury’s skills prolonged past design.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2012

Chrysler Group LLC, through its Mopar division, will offer in-vehicle wireless charging for portable devices such as smartphones. A phone case, specifically designed for a variety of smartphones, is required and included with the feature. For easy access, a seamlessly integrated power bin, measuring 8.27 inches by 9.5 inches by 3.25

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2011

Chrysler Group Global Electric Motorcars LLC (GEM), a wholly owned subsidiary of Chrysler Group LLC, recently launched the 2011 GEM vehicle line of low-speed battery-electric vehicles. More than 45,000 GEM vehicles are on the road worldwide. Utility tie downs that allow cargo to easily be secured in any of the GEM utility vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Designed to be the most fuel-efficient Chrysler flagship sedan yet, the new 2012 Chrysler 300 Luxury Series combines an eight-speed automatic transmission with the 292 hp (218 kW) 3.6-liter The 2012 Chrysler 300 is the first domestic luxury sedan to feature an eight-speed automatic transmission. L/100 km, respectively).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2012

During the Winter/Spring 2012 semester, students at the two colleges will create vehicle designs enabled by the packaging flexibility of the clean, efficient, and lightweight opoc. We looked at each other and said, “opoc can literally reshape the future of automotive design”—and the concept was born.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2011

will pay US$500 million to purchase the UST’s 6% ownership interest in Chrysler. the outstanding equity in Chrysler. associated with the Chrysler ownership interests held by VEBA above a specified. Under the Equity Recapture Agreement, any proceeds to VEBA from its Chrysler. Chrysler received $12.5 1 January 2010).

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 14, 2020

From the Sony Vision-S and its many screens to the Chrysler Airflow Vision concept and its additional touchscreen in front of the passenger, a theme inside vehicles shown at CES 2020 last week seemed to be the more screens the merrier.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 7, 2017

It's a well-reviewed new minivan design from the company that invented the modern minivan three decades ago. It's the 2017 Chrysler.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2014

Chrysler Group International LLC and Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., The joint venture will finalize its localized production plans in the near term which includes the consideration of a Jeep model uniquely designed for China. Fiat Group Automobiles S.p.A., GAC Group) have reached an agreement to expand the joint venture partnership.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2017

The lawsuit, filed 3 July 2017, in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, seeks damages and equitable relief for what it calls FCA’s and Cummins’ misconduct related to the design, manufacture, marketing, sale and lease of affected Dodge trucks with unlawfully high emissions.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Chrysler Group LLC, working in partnership with the US Department of Energy (DOE), will deliver 10 demonstration fleet Ram 1500 plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) pickup trucks to Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA). Chrysler Group LLC has delivered Ram 1500 PHEV trucks to the city of Yuma, Ariz., Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Chrysler has split the Dodge Brand into two separate organizations: the Dodge Ram Brand and the Dodge Car Brand. Gilles will continue to lead the Product Design organization of Chrysler Group which he joined in 1992. Manley has been with Chrysler since 1998. Veltri started with Chrysler in 1988. Fred Diaz Jr.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2010

Chrysler Group LLC will invest $300 million in its existing transmission manufacturing facilities in Kokomo, Ind. to accommodate production of a new fuel-efficient eight-speed automatic transmission for future Chrysler Group vehicles. The 8-speed hybrid transmission is designed for all current hybrid functionalities.

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InsideEVs

MAY 17, 2023

Ralph Gilles, Stellantis's chief design officer, says he's "stoked" about the new vehicle, which he thinks will be a hit.

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