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I'm really curious what the people in Auburn Hills will do to beef up the 1.6 for driving conditions in North America. I also would love to know the details on the 3-speed hybrid transmission. The Maverick hybrid with AWD uses a mechanical transfer transfer of power from the hybrid transmission...

I feel your pain. It is something very Orwellian when we are told to disbelieve the obvious.

I think the hybrid Punch transmission strategy will be a disaster on many levels. The longevity and durability is questionable, there is more advanced technology available, and the vehicles this hybrid drive goes into have thevspace for a higher battery capacity. The Pure-tech 3 cylinder should...

But wait there's more!😀 The Grande Panda is only the start. This summer there will be the launch of a Giga Panda. (I think it's a code name. The real name remains to be seen.) Rumors have that it will be 4.4 meters long. It's platform mate, the Opel Frontera, has a 105" wheelbase with an overall...

The Magna 7-speed is being used in the mild hybrid versions of the Euro Jeep Compass and Renegade. The SGE four / 7-speed combo is being replaced by the Peugeot 3 cylinder / 6-speed Punch transmission combo in the next generation of models in Europe. It is built to a price with step down in...

A pure BEV design by itself is foolish. Going forward there will be battery electric drives with a range extender option. Various Chinese manufacturers now offer what they call an extended range EV (EREV). The EREV models are typically unibody C and D segments with an IC engine driving a...

The present state of the art marries pure battery electric and series hybrid drivetrain engineering together. A company is flushing development money down the toilet if they choose to design an exclusive pure battery electric drive vehicle or an exclusive series hybrid one. Pure battery electric...

Magna kept quiet on who the customer is in Brazil was who will be supplied by the new transmission production facility recently built in that country. Now that the Magna 7-speed mild hybrid transmission has been announced for use in Ram and Fiat products for that market, we can easily figure out...

There's this thing called the World Wide Web which allows me to see pictures of automobiles marketed overseas. The latest Peugeot 5008 has an ugly grill and an even uglier dash. I hate touchscreens. Almost all the touchscreens in automobiles are sourced from China.

I'm sorry, I see the whole lineup of eCMP vehicles as the automotive equivalent of the electric rental scooters found along the curbs in city downtowns. Those scooters offer a transportation alternative and I'm not mocking them. It is just sad that some of the vehicles are saddled with...

I drive a hybrid more for the smoothness and the fuel economy is a bonus. Why Stellantis went backwards with the Hurricane six by using start/stop instead of the BSG is a head scratcher. The worst offender is the Lincoln Navigator, which shuts down in the car wash at the worst possible moment...

I will be happy if those stupid start/stop systems go away. I don't think all vehicle emission standards are going away, just the ones connected to the climate hysteria. What won't change are customer expectations, this will define the market choices over power train offerings. Main stream...

The EV Charger is one product from one brand. If the Punch Transmission shows up stateside it will go in multiple products of a number of brands.

You have it backwards. They took (stole) a Chrysler and made into a Peugeot. From the cowl back, the latest Peugeot 5008 appears to be something which was supposed to be a Chrysler. There was scheduled product which was to be a Journey replacement arriving under the Chrysler brand name. That...

In the very recent past, Ford had to limit the number of hybrids they were building because the company had used all their battery production on money losing battery electric vehicles such as the Mock-e and F-150 Lightning. I wonder if Stellantis has Forded themselves with the Charger Daytona...

Toyota's strategy for electrification is plug and play. That's what I call it, but I can't remember what the official name is. Basically Toyota will offer a combination of hybrid and electric drives for each vehicle to offer various degrees of electrification from a single motor hybrid...

What is the difference between the battery electric version of the Compass and the others, if there is a large delay to advance the introduction of the ICE models. If the BEV is that different to manufacture from the ICE equipped models, the profitability of the next Compass is questionable from...

This is quite shameful on the part of Stellantis. It is rumored the next Toyota RAV4 will have a choice of a hybrid or pure battery electric drive available. What is even sadder is that before Toyota went this route, GM was pioneering using common electric drive components between various types...

Stellantis had too many people working from home. When Auburn Hills was an active hub of activity there was more opportunity for interaction with suppliers. Here is an example of what ZF is now offering. Range Extender Systems

I was shuffling cars around at work the other day when I happened across a Hyundai Venue. It is two inches shorter in length than the Avenger in both wheelbase and overall length. My L-body 4 door Dodge Omni, from back in the day, had the same 99" wheelbase that the Venue has. (For reference...