"Company Introduces Three Advanced Electric-drive Vehicle Prototypes

* One targeted to be produced in 2010 for consumers in North American markets, and European markets after 2010
* Chrysler LLC to have approximately 100 electric vehicles on the road in government, business, utility and development fleets in 2009
* Chrysler electric-drive technology to be applied to front-wheel-drive, rear-wheel-drive, and body-on-frame four-wheel-drive platforms
* Dodge EV: All-electric Performance Sports Car
* Jeep® EV: Wrangler Range-extended Electric Vehicle to allow customers to roam the planet and take care of it at the same time
* Chrysler EV: Town & Country Range-extended Electric Vehicle
* Chrysler and General Electric pursue joint project with U.S. Department of Energy"

http://www.autoblog.com/2008/09/23/c...d-chrysler-ev/

 

Holy horsepower and torque batman! And 50 MPG! These are totally and utterly sweet, one question though: To extend the range, couldn't they design a generator on the back side of the rim?

 

The Dodge is ****ing sexy.

 

+2, but where is the crosshair grille!!!??

 

Isn't that just a re-badged Lotus Europa? It looks sick, but I hope dodge designs its own platform for the Dodge EV.

 

Yes...

 

its not exactly a rebadged europa...lotus worked closely with tesla on their roadster and had similar involvement in the Dodge EV, and when it came time for dodge to show off their EV technology, they needed a body for the car, and since lotus has experience with ultra lightweight models, they used the europa body. dodge has said that they want to have at least one of the three EVs available by the time the Volt hits the road, but with the Chrysler and Jeep EV using what are basically production models, im afraid that the Dodge EV wont end up in production, or if it does it wont still be a sports car...

 

There isn't that much difference between the two cars at all I dont think.

 

Do you mean the Tesla and the EV, or the Europa and the EV?

 

Blech. An electric Jeep is sacrelige, and same goes for the sportscar. Greenies are the only market, and they dont want anything with performance. The van makes sense for the postal service, or couriers in congested cities though.