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Dodge Might Not Drop Internal Combustion for Next-Gen Charger After All

The Truth About Cars

Dodge is discontinuing the Charger and Challenger after the 2023 model year, but the automaker isn’t doing away with muscle cars altogether. Despite these tantalizing details on the new Charger, Mopar Insiders noted that Dodge might roll out a fresh Challenger before the next-gen Charger goes on sale.

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Junkyard Find: 1987 Toyota Conversion Van

The Truth About Cars

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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County of Alameda Selects ElectroDrive for Conversion of Dodge Dakota to EREV

Green Car Congress

The County of Alameda recently entered into a partnership with ElectraDrive for a pilot conversion of one of its fleet Dodge Dakotas to extended-range electric drive. The vehicle is expected to enter road-testing around the middle of 2010.

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Echo Automotive to extend plug-in hybrid conversion system to GM 2500 and 3500 vans

Green Car Congress

The Chevrolet Express is second only to Ford E-Series vans in North American commercial fleet registrations, and trails only the E-Series and Dodge Caravan in government fleet registrations, according to the most recent statistics published by Business Fleet. EchoDrive currently is available for Ford E-Series vans. Click to enlarge.

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EV Architecture

DIY Electric Car

I’d be grateful for anyone’s ideas who might share them as to the attached architecture for my 1946 Dodge Sedan conversion. Some things are set: motor, controller, number of leaf battery modules. I’m trying to be extra scrappy in my approach, without being cheesy.

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QOTD: How Charged Up Are You?

The Truth About Cars

Today's Dodge Charger launch is going to drive a lot of conversations. The big question is, will Dodge be able to sell muscle-car aficionados, some of whom are probably anti-EV and/or very much in favor of internal-combustion engines, on a pure battery-electric vehicle? Image: Dodge] Become a& TTAC& insider.

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Conversations: Tesla #2 In California Auto Market, How Tesla Can Dominate The Future, & Dodge’s Fart Machine

CleanTechnica EVs

If not, below are a few recent conversations we had regarding a handful of […]. If you’re a dedicated listener to our CleanTech Talk podcast channel, or at least our CleanTech Roundtalk (where Steve, Jo, and I ramble, argue, and laugh about various cleantech topics), then you may have already listened to all of these episodes.