Chrysler is Betting Big on EV / PHEV

By | September 24, 2008
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Interestingly, they aren’t going with traditional Prius-like hybrids – where a gas engine directly pushes the drivetrain. Rather, they are going full EV for sports cars and Volt-like range-extension for everything else (where the electric engine always pushes the drive train and a small gas engine charges the batteries when necessary).

Chrysler plans on bringing these vehicles to market in two years.

More at Wired.

  • MDarling

    I may just be another tech-savvy-ish liberal arts major (history of the mid east/ international economics) but series hybrids make way more sense.

    First- assume the primary drive is electric. The charging source can be anything that can store and or produce electricity: gas driven generator, diesel driven, battery, ultracap, soalr panel, microwave inductor warp coil- whatever.

    It makes for ashort bridge to new electrical generation- the electric already charges the ev motor. Later when onboard storage is better- for shorter trips, no electrical generation.