After about six years of big announcements about hybrid and electric cars from Chrysler, the company has delivered nearly zero gas-electric vehicles. Way back in 2004, Dodge was promising a Ram hybrid pickup. That never materialized. In 2008, hybrid versions of the Dodge Durango and Chrysler Aspen full-size SUVs were killed just [...] [...]
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How much of a factor is the battery warranty? A long term worry? Today, GM announced that the warranty on the Chevy Volt battery pack will be 8 years, or 100,000 miles — whichever comes first. Considering the expense of the battery pack, and the newness of the technology, is 8 years enough? Rather than the 5 year or [...] [...] There’s a truism in Silicon Valley: Investment money flows to good ideas, but it flows more freely to good ideas with credentialed people behind them. The truism played out this week when start-up EcoMotors scored a $23.5 million Series B round of investment from Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates and alternative energy investor Vinod Khosla. [...] [...] A real danger or just a distraction? Did the government assume too much? “The Department of Transportation has analyzed a sampling of dozens of black boxes in Toyota vehicles involved in accidents blamed on unintended acceleration, finding the throttles were open and the brakes were not engaged,” the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Consequently, it seems — at [...] [...] |
 
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