Which transmission, or should I say, whose transmission will it be? I hope this isn't that "built down to a price" French-Chinese 6-speed. Daimler sold one of the old Chrysler's crown jewels, New Process Gear, to Magna. Magna now has some advanced designs, including a 7-speed, 48V hybrid front drive transaxle used in the Euro Jeep Compass and Renegade models.
Since the early days of the lock-up torque converter, the historic Chrysler Corp brands went from first to worst for transmissions. Most notable is the Ultra-Drive debacle.which scared away a generation of buyers from Chrysler, Dodge and Plymouth. Since that episode, buyers were treated to a JATCO CVT in the Belvidere trio, the DDCT in the Dart, and the half baked ZF 9-speed automatic. Truck transmissions are a topic for another thread.
After some early teething problems, the eFlite hybrid transaxle has been quite successful. What I find strange is it has never been used in anything other than the Pacifica PHEV. The GKN e-axle hybrid system is only imported on the Tonale and Hornet.
Early adapters will buy an ugly hybrid, then they will move on to something else like a pure battery electric with bad build quality. Toyota learned this as Prius sales dried up and buyers walked across the showroom and bought Corolla and RAV4 hybrids instead. The people buying Toyota hybrids today are mainstream buyers, not early adapters. There are a heck of a lot more mainstream buyers than early adapters. The Prius has since morphed into something spectacular.
Another bad transmission could prove fatal for the legacy Chrysler brands, keep the French-Chinese junk in Europe. People won't buy an ugly hybrid, fix the Dodge Hornet. At one point management said that the Chrysler brand would be people movers with products like the Pacifica PHEV, then they changed their mind and said it would be an all electric brand. Around the same time Toyota said their Lexus brand would be all electric, now they seem to be selling a lineup of mostly hybrid people movers.Funny, isn't it, but only Toyota and Lexus seem to be laughing.