On Thursday and  Friday December 4th and 5th from 11am to 12 noon, Chrysler will showcase the Company’s progress in advanced electric vehicle technology on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol with three ENVI vehicle concepts, one for each of its brands — Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep(R). On Thursday, the electric vehicles will be positioned on the North Side [...]

GM CEO Rick Wagoner has announced that instead of flying or taking the train or bus, he’ll be driving to Washington to meet with them tomorrow.  He’ll be driving in our favorite car, the Volt.  This is a message to DC that GM is thinking forward and can help this country a great deal in [...]

Ever since chrysler unveiled the three production intent electric vehicles to the public the Dodge EV has been compared to either the Dodge Viper or the Tesla Roadster.  Both comparisons are appropriate since all three vehicles are high performance cars.  The Viper has incredible horsepower and 0-60 times, it is also a sports car that [...]

Chrysler LLC’s three advanced production-intent electric vehicle prototype vehicles are headed to California, where they will make their worldwide auto show debut at the 2008 Los Angeles Auto Show. The vehicles — the Dodge EV, Jeep(R) EV and Chrysler EV — will be on display during press days (Nov. 19-20), and throughout the show’s public [...]

When Chrysler reveiled their three ENVI vehicles a few weeks ago we found that one of them was an all electric sports car for Dodge.  Likely a replacement for the Viper (Chrysler is looking to sell the Viper name for some cash, the new CAFE standards preclude Chrysler from making the Viper in a few [...]

Chrysler was very secretive about making their electric cars.  It started with a mandate in July of 2007 to make working prototypes by summer of 2009.  Chrysler took different people from all over the company and put them in their own skunkworks like group and were told to just get it done.  They have an [...]

Lou Rhodes, the Chrysler VP in charge of the ENVI division plans to attend the Automotive News Green Car Conference.  At the conference Rhodes will address many questions about the ENVI program and give an update on Chrysler’s progress on it’s electric cars.  Chrysler only plans on releasing one of the EVs in 2010 with [...]

With a target sales date of 2010 Chrysler’s ENVI division has a lot of work to do between now and then.  Usually it takes a much longer time to bring a new car to market, let alone a car with all new technology.  Usually the technology jumps are small new incorporations of additional features or [...]

It’s no coincidence that both Chrysler extended range vehicles (Town and Country and Wrangler) announced boast the same 40 mile electric only range that the Chevy Volt does.  According to studies 80% of americans drive 40 miles or less per day.  That means that the 40 miles of battery power allows most people that buy [...]

It’s some coincidence that both the Chrysler EV and Jeep EV purport to have a battery only range of 40 miles, the same as the Chevy Volt.  But how can that be?  GM is worked furiously on the aerodynamics of the Volt in order to achieve the 40 mile range.  The Chrysler EV is a [...]