patfromigh
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Welcome back to those (3-headed) dog days of that post Daimler entity known as Chrysler LLC. It was that brief time period between Daimler kicking a looted Chrysler to the curb and Sergio stepping into Auburn Hills, when a leveraged buyout company was looking to strip and flip the old Chrysler Corp. Daimler had already started the ball rolling by engaging in talks with Nissan, in exchange for a midsize sedan based on the Nissan Altima, while Nissan would receive a pickup based on the Ram 1500. A huge manufacturing facility was built in Dundee, Michigan to produce the World engine series for Chrysler Group, Nissan, Mitsubishi, and Hyundai/Kia. A Jatco CVT built in Mexico would be combined with those World 4 engines in small Dodges and Jeeps built in. Belevidere, IL, as well as a few Mitsubishi products. Nissan would continue to use their own engines.
It all came apart. Half of the Dundee engine facility sat empty as the Koreans and Mitsubishi went their own way for engine production, and a newly formed FCA would phase out the CVT for the Belvedere Trio. Later, both Nissan-Mitsubishi and FCA would hookup with French automakers. Nissan married Renault and FCA went to PSA. The rest is recent history.
Nissan's obsession with their JATCO CVT would eventually doom that brand in North America. Their reputation suffered greatly. What puzzled auto industry observers was that Nissan was leading the industry on electrification with the Leaf EV, but the company never offered Americans the e-Power hybrid setup based on the Nissan Leaf's drive motor and electrical architecture. This left American consumers with little choice beyond a CVT in most Nissan products sold here, while everywhere else was offered a hybrid alternative.
Nissan will be bringing their 3rd generation e-Power hybrid system to the USA market. The Nissan e-Power hybrid system is a series hybrid, the IC engine only powers a generator, while e-motors power the drive wheels. It will be offered in two versions, a non plugin hybrid with a small battery or a plugin EREV version with a larger battery pack. The 3rd generation e-Power hybrid system will be built here and installed in the next generation Nissan Rogue built in New Smyrna, Tennessee. Here is the dilemma for Nissan, the New Smyrna facility only runs at half of its capacity. The plant is not making money at that level.
Certain news outlets today are reporting that Nissan is in talks with both Stellantis and Ford about using the 3rd generation E-Power system for some of their products or having Nissan build a product for them in New Smyrna.
I speculate that the Stellantis suits are thinking hard about letting Nissan build a replacement for the Jeep Renegade in Tennessee, as a result of the tariff situation. My only hope is that anything which shows up in a CDJ showroom use an engine built by Stellantis here in North America. The Nissan Rogue 3 cylinder has a worse reputation than the PSA Pure Tech 3 cylinder engine, if that even seems possible. If Nissan just wants to sell the e-Power system to Stellantis for use in CDJR vehicles Stellantis should jump on it. The plugin version of the 3rd generation e-Power is a true EREV and is a generation ahead of what most of the Chinese brands are offering.
The Nissan e-Power:
It all came apart. Half of the Dundee engine facility sat empty as the Koreans and Mitsubishi went their own way for engine production, and a newly formed FCA would phase out the CVT for the Belvedere Trio. Later, both Nissan-Mitsubishi and FCA would hookup with French automakers. Nissan married Renault and FCA went to PSA. The rest is recent history.
Nissan's obsession with their JATCO CVT would eventually doom that brand in North America. Their reputation suffered greatly. What puzzled auto industry observers was that Nissan was leading the industry on electrification with the Leaf EV, but the company never offered Americans the e-Power hybrid setup based on the Nissan Leaf's drive motor and electrical architecture. This left American consumers with little choice beyond a CVT in most Nissan products sold here, while everywhere else was offered a hybrid alternative.
Nissan will be bringing their 3rd generation e-Power hybrid system to the USA market. The Nissan e-Power hybrid system is a series hybrid, the IC engine only powers a generator, while e-motors power the drive wheels. It will be offered in two versions, a non plugin hybrid with a small battery or a plugin EREV version with a larger battery pack. The 3rd generation e-Power hybrid system will be built here and installed in the next generation Nissan Rogue built in New Smyrna, Tennessee. Here is the dilemma for Nissan, the New Smyrna facility only runs at half of its capacity. The plant is not making money at that level.
Certain news outlets today are reporting that Nissan is in talks with both Stellantis and Ford about using the 3rd generation E-Power system for some of their products or having Nissan build a product for them in New Smyrna.
I speculate that the Stellantis suits are thinking hard about letting Nissan build a replacement for the Jeep Renegade in Tennessee, as a result of the tariff situation. My only hope is that anything which shows up in a CDJ showroom use an engine built by Stellantis here in North America. The Nissan Rogue 3 cylinder has a worse reputation than the PSA Pure Tech 3 cylinder engine, if that even seems possible. If Nissan just wants to sell the e-Power system to Stellantis for use in CDJR vehicles Stellantis should jump on it. The plugin version of the 3rd generation e-Power is a true EREV and is a generation ahead of what most of the Chinese brands are offering.
The Nissan e-Power:
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