Comments on: Trio of updated Chrysler EVs to debut at Detroit show

By: yarddog82abn

yarddog82abn — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:38:07 +0000

I remember watching a episode of TOP GEAR, (clearly the best car TV show ever!) and Clarkson chase a Toyota Prius driven by the “Stig” in a BMW M3 around their track, the Prius was at full blast around the track, it average 17MPG all out… The M3 with a lot less effort (mostly cruising) gave chase to the Prius. The M3 Average 19MPG in regular drive mode, never taping out the accelerator, didn’t need to, the Prius was to slow.

Clarkson’s conclusion, if you drive in a mannered way you can average good MPG in almost any car. The notion that the window sticker MPG is “what to look for” is fails, it is simply a estimate of what the vehicle can do.

I own a 2006 Ford F-150, 6 inch lift, 22″ wheels, 36″ Tire’s, Roush Supercharger, with 3.53 gears limited slip in the back, and I can still manage 15 MPG, if I just cruse in it, you may ask do I need to be driving that monster? Yes I go out to the Glammis Sand Dunes, and it look’s cool, my worst MPG in the truck, 7.3 MPG at least that’s what the truck tells me. The wife average 16 MPG in the Tahoe, and yes it is lowered, and on 24″…

So the question remains… Do we need more Eco Green Cars, or just Slow-Down-A-Bit……..

By: Borat

Borat — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:35:40 +0000

I would call it “electrocution of tax dollars”. When I read about electric vehicles from ChryCo I have images of “Seinfield” with Costanza racing against old farts on electric chair in the streets of NYC.

By: Kris K

Kris K — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:58:59 +0000

It´s a rebadged Europa with an electric driveline.

By: Ramatai

Ramatai — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:13:05 +0000

Isn’t this a picture iof the Lotus Europa or is it a clone of one

By: darx_ider

darx_ider — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:23:37 +0000

Are these EV American cars real? I have been hearing about the Volt, Dodge EV…etc for over 5 years now. However, never seen any of them on the road!

By: johnnycanuck

johnnycanuck — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:56:55 +0000

Just tell us for sure where you’re going with all this Chrysler. You got your bailout now let’s hear what you’re going to do with it and when. And besides these, whatever else you have up your sleeve I’d be putting on that stage in Detroit as well. The MOPAR natives are getting restless.

By: bmw 740i

bmw 740i — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:28:36 +0000

“with the Lotus-based Dodge EV” why dont they just call it what it is… a LOTUS EUROPA instead of 24/7 rebadging

By: Mutant@DCX

Mutant@DCX — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:15:00 +0000

We have so many e85 vehicles, they are all over town. Three filling stations in all of Canada. Toronto being the closest, 380 km away. So bad badging or not, thats all that really matters… pretty, green hybid, ev, or ng badge, to make the public feel good.

/gas is 67 cents a litre today.

By: CHMMX

CHMMX — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:35:21 +0000

Where are these spy pics? i want to see them?

And yeah, they’re not EVs they’re hybrids!

By: Blakkarr

Blakkarr — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:26:30 +0000

I would still hope for the DODGE ZEO, but that is looking less likely by the day.

CHRYSLER may be moving extremely fast to move these to production, either before money runs out or to get their @$$es properly in gear. At recent expositions, such as LA, they were chided for their very lacking presentation. Then again not many really made an effort for LA this year.

It is thought the the Chyrsler EV Minivan was just a very seriously bad rebadging. But if the case is that these are Serial Hybrids like the VOLT, then the tail pipe is a given. I just wish they had been more blunt about it.

Calling them Hybrids instead of EVs would have helped.