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Where is Ram sourcing the inverter from? I highly doubt it is an in-house piece. That's beside the point. Pictures of the Ramcharger running gear installed on the frame have been splashed all over the internet for months. The under hood space is all accounted for. There aren't any 48V or high...

We can't build cars. We spent all our money on Archer Aircraft. (The Management)

The missing puzzle piece is the 3-speed hybrid transmission. I don't know if anyone outside of a select few employees have seen it. By now some suppliers might have had their hands on one if it really is in production by the end of the year. The design of the hybrid setup will reveal its family...

Has anyone determined if the KM is rear drive based or will have a front drive based transverse engine. The Wagoneer S is all electric so far, so it is hard to determine anything from that. There are four different flavors of the STLA Large platform, the Charger Daytona being rear drive based...

Toyota has just blurred the lines between hybrid, plugin hybrid and battery electric. I wonder if anybody in Auburn Hills is smart enough to recoup some of their own EV development costs by copying what Toyota is doing with their new PHEV system. Using the e-axle from a corporate EV can be done...

The last Jeep Renegade we saw new is 166" overall on a 101" wheelbase. The Frontera is 172" long with a 105" wheelbase. It is on the longer end of the Smart platform spectrum. On the short end is the Fiat Grande Panda it has 157" overall length on a 100" wheelbase. Sometime next month the...

Make this worth my while and have the fighter jet shoot the Archer Aviation prototype out of the sky.

There really hasn't been enough information published about this new hybrid transmission to truly figure out how it works. I highly suspect the basic design came from an outside supplier. If it is Magna or ZF engineering, now we are are talking about a range extender system. It is probably to...

I hope he can stay out of the ivory tower.

I would still carry a spare ballast resister in the glove box.

Toyota changed the game this week with the introduction of their 6th generation plugin hybrid system for the new RAV4. The new system blurs the line between a hybrid, an EV, and a range extended EV. The usual Toyota 2.5 liter naturally aspirated four running an Atkinson Cycle is under the hood...

Here is a Mopar Insiders article from early last year which reveals the future plans for a Fiat Panda family. I think the pickup concept could be fashioned into a mini-Gladiator. Please note that these drawings are very rough estimates of the actual finished product. For example, the City Car...

The Ford F-150 is losing its decades long "king of the hill" status to the Toyota RAV4 on the sales chart. Up until this week, half of the RAV4 sales were hybrid. Toyota revealed the 2026 RAV4 on Wednesday and now that model will have hybrid only drive trains, either a 5th generation HEV or a...

We didn't receive the entire story on the Fiat Grande Panda Hybrid press event. Fiat also presented a concept at that event. https://www.fiat.com/news/grande-panda-4x4-concept-reveal-turin

There's room for both, but Fiat USA needs to drop the boutique style selling environment. The price on the 500e is also too high, Europe gets a base trim. A "Giga-Panda" is on the way next, plus there are other Panda themed vehicles in the pipeline as well. There is the recent article about the...

All the Jeep concepts in the video each offer fascinating food for thought. A few weeks ago the SLATE EV pickup went viral and started a conversation about how affordability and simplicity have gone missing in today's auto market. When I look at the J6 concept I can't help but think, what if a...

Don't saddle the Chrysler brand with outdated obsolete drive technology. The solution for the Charger is bring the electrification up to date. Here is what ZF just unveiled in Shanghai a few weeks ago. Read about it here-->Range Extender: More Than Just Extra Range - ZF If you want...

The cadence of new Stellantis product introductions for everywhere but here is truly staggering. Notice also that the Avenger for Latin America also gets a driveline tailored to the regional customers desires. Allegedly, we are supposed to get a Renegade replacement. The Avenger is too small...

A Helephant powered Ram 1500 crew-cab for $125,000 USD is the best we can do. Oh by the way, there's a new Fiat Grande Panda based pickup on the way as well. It will be available everywhere but here. There is a fairly recent Mopar Insiders article on the start of production of the Fiat Titano...

The real impossible mission is selling the battery electric Wagoneer S at a profit.