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October 7, 2008
Last June, as the market for full-size trucks tanked in response to high gas prices, Toyota shocked the auto industry by announcing that for $20,000 over base price buyers could purchase the full-size Tundra pickup, the midsize Tacoma pickup or the FJ Cruiser SUV with additional power and abysmal fuel economy.
Jim Lentz, president of Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., told Automotive News today that despite its recent zero-percent financing deals, Japan's No. 1 automaker is not going to engage Chevrolet, Ford and Dodge in their full-sized pickup sales war.
"I don't want to get stuck in the middle of Ford and Chevy battling for the No. 1 truck this year, and Dodge launching the Ram," Lentz said in an interview.
Chevrolet sold 50,428 Silverados last month, off just 3.9 percent in a plummeting segment that saw Tundra, Motor Trend's 2008 Truck of the Year, fall 60.7 percent, the Ford F-150 drop 41.6 percent and Dodge Ram off 30.9 percent.
Toyota had hoped to sell about 20,000 Tundras a month this year; September sales were just 7,696 units.
Lentz said part of the decline was an abbreviated 2008 model year from its Texas and Indiana truck plants that were temporarily shut down. With a segment forecast to be as low as 1.5 million trucks--down from a peak of 2.5 million--the pickup fight could get desperate.
Development of a diesel-engine variant of the Tundra has been tabled, Lentz reportedly told Automotive News. While the diesel has not been canceled outright, Toyota is studying whether it makes sense to enter such a small segment.
That's a big step back from Toyota telling dealers at the National Automobile Dealers Association convention last year that a diesel would arrive by 2010 or 2011.
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- Scott Doggett October 7, 2008, 10:18 AM
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September 25, 2008
Green Car Advisor was a bit early with our report Tuesday of Chrysler's unexpected but oh-so-welcome electric vehicle announcement, posting the bare bones of the story hours before the company held a press conference to lay out more detail.
We were in Portland covering a Toyota seminar on sustainable mobility when that happened and weren't able to make it to Chrysler HQ in Michigan for the show.
But colleague Michelle Krebs, senior editor of Edmunds Auto Observer, did attend and agreed to file an update to keep you all up to date.
Without further ado, heeeeere's Michelle's take on Chrysler's electric vehicles:
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- Chrysler unveiled a trio of battery-electric and extended-range series hybrid electric cars Tuesday and said it would eventually offer some type of electric version of every model in its line.
The first will hit showrooms in the U.S. sometime in 2010. European consumers will get one shortly thereafter.
Chrysler would not say which of the three models unveiled this week - one for each of its marques -- would go into production, and executives said that work continues on all of them.
The Dodge EV is two-seat, rear-drive sports car based on the Lotus Europa, a stretched version of the Elise sold only in Europe.
Chrysler revealed that it now has a partnership with the British sports car maker, though details remain under wraps.
The Dodge EV coupe is equipped with a 200-kilowatt motor that produces an estimated 268 horsepower and 480 pound-feet of torque, for a zero to 60 mile per hour time of less than five seconds and quarter mile of about 13 seconds.
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- John O'Dell September 25, 2008, 6:00 AM
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September 23, 2008
Aiming to show that it is not irrelevant in today's fast-changing auto market, Chrysler is announcing today that it will have at least one electric vehicle in production by 2010, a timetable that would put its zero-emissions, gasoline-free car into competition with EVs and plug-in hybrids being launched by General Motors and Toyota in the same timeframe.
To prove it is up to the challenge, Chrysler Chairman Bob Nardelli is giving journalists a peek this morning at four EV prototypes it has developed in its year-old green car R&D program- one of them a close relative of Tesla Motors' already-in-production electric roadster, another -- more likely for production, based on the Town & Country van.
Chrysler raised the curtain with a preview this morning on CNBC, and promised more details later today after a press conference at its Auburn Hills, Mich., headquarters
The cars, descendants of concept vehicles Chrysler introduced at this year's Detroit Auto Show, are being unveiuled just as Congress begins considering funding $25 billion loan program to help Detroit finance a new generation of fuel-efficient vehilces that could helkp it compete agan with cars from Asian and European manufacturers..
What we know now is that the operating prototype roadster (left), called simply the Dodge EV, is based on an extended Lotus Europa chassis, uses a lithium-ion battery pack and has a claimed range of 150-200 miles per charge and a 0-60 acceleration time of under 5 seconds.
The specs closely mimic those of the Tesla Roadster, which uses a much-modified Lotus Elise chassis.
Other cars being shown are the Chrysler EV based on the T&C van (top), a Jeep four-wheel drive EV (bottom right) based on the Wrangler, and a bubble-shaped low-speed neighborhood EV (bottom left) that sprung from the imagination of a designer who apparently was once traumatized by a jelly bean.
The Chrysler and Jeep prototypes would use series hybrid electric drivetrains similar to that scheduled to be introduced in late 2010 in General Motors Corp.'s Chevrolet Volt.
A grid-charged lithium-ion battery pack would provide up to 40 miles of range, after which an internal combustion engine/generator would kick on to produce enough juice to continue powering the electric drive motors while recharging the battery packs.
Click here to jump to the CNBC page where you can watch a (very slow to load) video of a test drive session.
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- John O'Dell September 23, 2008, 7:30 AM
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September 2, 2008
By John O'Dell, Senior Editor
Chrysler co-president Jim Press, the carmaker's self-described "demand" man charged with developing a product line people actually want to buy, says that despite its image, the company isn't stuck in the performance-car track and is well on the way to launching a full slate of "green" vehicles.
In addition to gas-electric hybrid models of the Chrysler Aspen
(left) and Dodge Durango SUVs just hitting dealer showrooms and a hybrid Dodge Ram pickup due next year, Chrysler engineers are testing a trio of hybrid and all-electric models with componments that are "near" market-ready, Press said.
Speaking to a group of automotive journalists and industry insiders in Los Angeles today, Press -- former head of Toyota's ultra-successful U.S. sales and marketing operation -- said that while a slimmed-down Chrysler will not abandon the Hemi V8s, hulking trucks and off-road vehicles it is known for, it is also looking at ways to boost fuel economy and, eventually, offer plug-in hybrid and battery-electric versions of many of its models.
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- John O'Dell September 2, 2008, 2:35 PM
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July 22, 2008
Soy foam in the seats the Ford F-150 pickups and Lincoln Navigator SUVs. Locally farmed hemp, "ethically produced" woolen fabric and floor mats made of sisal in the Lotus Eco Elise.
Some automakers are increasingly going to great lengths to make the interiors of some of their models if not environmentally friendly, at least a bit wholesome.
But others, well...
Early today the Ecology Center of Ann Arbor, Michigan, posted its second-annual consumer guide to toxic chemicals in cars and children's car seats at www.HealthyCar.org.
More than two hundred 2008- and 2009-model-year vehicles and more than 60 children's car seats were tested for unhealthy chemicals that seep in gaseous form from the steering wheel, dashboard, armrests, seats and carpet.
The "new-car smell," as the gases are commonly called, mingle with the air occupants breathe and have been linked to allergies, birth defects, impaired learning, liver toxicity and cancer.
The Ecology Center reported that Mazda, General Motors and Nissan improved since last year's findings, with GM showing the greatest gains of the domestic automakers, with an average vehicle ranking improvement of 27 percent.
The list of the 10 best and 10 worst vehicles as picked by the Center appears in the chart above.
Average child-car-seat scores improved 28 percent overall. The list of 10 best and worst car seats for 2008 as picked by the Center appears at left. Click on the chart for a better look.
For more information, go to www.HealthyCar.org.
Below are the three worst 2008-model-year vehicles by interior pollution, according to the Center (click on each to enlarge). From left to right: Mitsubishi Eclipse, Suzuki Reno and Volkswagen New Beetle.
Below are are the three best vehicles by interior pollution, according to the Center (click on each to enlarge). From left to right: Acura RXD, Chevrolet Cobalt and Smart Passion Cabriolet.
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- Scott Doggett July 22, 2008, 12:21 AM
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July 17, 2008
By Scott Doggett, Contributor
That's our sensational headline for 2008, but there's more than a smidgen of truth in it.
Last year Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Ecology Center released the first-ever consumer guide to toxic chemicals in cars and child car seats -- and what they reported was sickening.
The odor you inhale when you slide into a new car? It might very well be bromine, chlorine, lead, other harmful chemicals or a witches' brew of them. They've been linked to birth defects, impaired learning, liver toxicity, premature births and, no doubt, cancer.
If you think the government protects you against such things, think again. Some of the vehicles on the road today are veritable toxic dumps on wheels. And many drivers are exposed to these chemicals through inhalation and contact with dust every day.
In case you missed last year's report, Ecology Center found the most toxic vehicles were the Nissan Versa, Chevy Aveo, Scion xB 5dr and the Kia Rio. The least toxic vehicles were the Chevy Cobalt, Chrysler PT Cruiser, Honda Odyssey and the Volvo V50.
Next Tuesday -- July 22 -- Ecology Center will release its second annual consumer guide to toxic chemicals in cars and child car seats, and if you're thinking of buying a new car anytime soon, you'll want to check it out. The guide will be posted at www.healthycar.org a little after midnight on the 22nd.
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- Scott Doggett July 17, 2008, 1:39 PM
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July 16, 2008
While most automakers have shifted production to focus on smaller vehicles, nearly 70 percent of consumers want the companies to invest more in existing and emerging powertrain technologies, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2008 Alternative Powertrain Study released today.
Now in its third year, the Alternative Powertrain Study examines the reasons why consumers consider or avoid alternative powertrain vehicles, such as gas-electric hybrid, flex fuel and clean diesel models.
The study includes the Automotive Environmental Index, which rates the 2008-model-year vehicles on the basis of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency data to fuel economy and greenhouse-gas emissions, as well as expert input from J.D. Power & Associates.
The study found that more than 80 percent of the 4,000 consumers polled believe the U.S. is currently facing an energy crisis. Only 18 percent of these respondents believe the issue can be addressed by building small, fuel-efficient vehicle.
Thirty percent believe automakers should continue to produce a comparable vehicle lineup with a focus on gas-electric hybrid, clean diesel and flexible-fuel vehicles, while another 39 percent believe carmakers should focus on developing fuel cell and all-electric vehicles.
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- Scott Doggett July 16, 2008, 3:32 PM
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July 14, 2008
By Scott Doggett, Contributor
Chrysler is working on three extended-range electric vehicles that will be ready for market within three to five years, a company spokesman told Green Car Advisor today.
The EVs will be based on the Jeep Renegade, Dodge Zeo (at right) and Chrysler ecoVoyager (in Moon rock silver-beigel, below) concept vehicles that stole much of the limelight for their über-cool designs at their debut in Detroit this past January.
All three production models will be powered by electric motors connected to advanced lithium-ion battery packs, and each will be capable of extended drive ranges, Chrysler's Nick Cappa said in an interview.
The Dodge Zeo will be a pure plug-in electric sports car packing enough lithium-ion battery modules to travel 250 miles between charges, Cappa said. The sleek, four-door coupe will certainly be one of the most exciting concept cars to debut all year, and the reason should be apparent (it's breathtakingly beautiful!).
What's not apparent is the fact that the Zeo's doors -- front and back -- open upward instead of outward. Also not apparent is the Zeo's single 200-kilowatt/hour, 286-horsepower electric motor capable of propeling the EV to 60 miles per hour in under six seconds.
To keep costs and prices in check, the same motor, electrical architecture, power electronics and next-generation lithium-ion battery technology in the Zeo will be used in Chrysler's two other initial EVs.
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- Scott Doggett July 14, 2008, 6:38 PM
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July 1, 2008
By Scott Doggett, Contributor
A lobbying group for 10 major automakers including Detroit's Big Three, Toyota and Daimler urged federal regulators today to dramatically water down its proposal to hike fuel efficiency standards or run the risk of costing 82,000 autoworkers their jobs and the U.S. economy tens of billions of dollars.
In a thousand-page document filed today by the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, the automakers condemned the April 22 proposal by the U.S. Transportation Department that would boost fuel economy requirements to a fleetwide average of 31.6 miles per gallon by the 2015 model year.
That average includes 35.7 mpg for passenger cars and 28.6 mpg for light trucks. The nation's new passenger cars currently are required to meet a fleet average of 27.5 mpg, while the light-truck fleet - generally encompassing port utility vehicles, pickup trucks and vans - must hit a target average of 22.5 mpg.
"This goes beyond what is technologically feasible and economically practical," the automakers said. "It would require manufacturers to expend resources at a pace that is excessive given the fact that the auto industry is already under economic stress."
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- Scott Doggett July 1, 2008, 1:31 PM
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June 23, 2008
Taking a page from Toyota's playbook (hmm, didn't they recently hire some big shot from Toyota, a guy named Jim Press?) Chrysler says it will be offering hybrid versions of lots of its cars and trucks in the future.
The Detroit News reports that Chrysler brand marketing manager Michael Berube promised at the Boston launch of the two-mode hybrid Dodge Durango (left) and Chrysler Aspen SUVs last week that they wouldn't be the last Chrysler hybrids.
"In the future, hybrid and other fuel-saving technology will come in all sizes, shapes and colors," he said.
We already know the Dodge Ram pickup is next up on the hybrid timetable, and best guess is that the next shapes to be hybridized will be the company’s rear-drive Dodge Charger and Chrysler 300 sedans...
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- John O'Dell June 23, 2008, 11:30 AM
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June 18, 2008
Tundra and Sequoia (below) are victims of $4 gasoline and weak economy.
By John O'Dell, Senior Editor
Even giants stumble.
Toyota is cutting production at its truck plants in San Antonio, Texas, and Princeton, Ind., and at its Alabama truck engine plant, hoping to adjust to the steep and sudden plunge in sales of large pickups and sport utility vehicles as shell-shocked consumers scramble for more fuel-efficient transportation.
The automaker, famed for its ability to read the market, also is dismissing all 200 members of the fulltime temporary workforce – contract workers supplied by a temp agency – at the San Antonio plant, where production is dedicated to the Tundra full-size pickup. The Indiana plant, which builds both the Tundra and the full-size Sequoia SUV, has no temporary workers.
"This is a painful but necessary step, given the state of the economy," said Toyota manufacturing spokesman Mike Goss.
$4-a-gallon gasoline, a moribund housing construction industry and a weak overall economy points to a permanent change in auto-buying habits in North America, with sales of small cars and compact trucks and SUVs expected to continue rising while sales of large trucks and SUVs shrink.
At present sales rates, it would take Toyota dealers about four months to sell out the backlog of built but unsold Tundras and Sequoias.
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- John O'Dell June 18, 2008, 3:09 PM
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June 17, 2008
Taking a cue from the lukewarm reception buyers have given GM's $50,000-plus SUV hybrids, Chrysler announced today that its Chrysler Aspen (above) and Dodge Durango (right) hybrids will cost $45,000 and change – including shipping – when they arrive in showrooms this August.
As you may recall, Green Car Advisor reported that the General was having such a hard time unloading his 2008 Chevy Tahoe and GMC Yukon hybrids that he felt compelled to offer $4,000 cash rebates on both full-size SUVs earlier this month.
To avoid possibly having to make a similar retreat, Chrysler will be offering the 2009 Durango and Aspen hybrids for $45,340 and $45,570, respectively.
The Chryslers will be all-wheel-drive vehicles and are expected to be rated at the same 20 miles per gallon highway as the four-wheel-drive GM trucks (the Tahoe is also available in 2WD), which is a 40 percent bump over the conventional models...
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- Scott Doggett June 17, 2008, 5:16 PM
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June 12, 2008
Chrysler LLC is developing a global compact car model based on the Dodge Hornet concept car (above) that debuted at the 2006 Geneva Auto Show, Financial Times Germany reported Wednesday, citing Thomas Hausch, the company's vice president for international purchasing.
"We are working intensely on the Hornet study," Hausch said. "I think we will announce something on this in the future."
The new model will likely be launched in 2010 in Europe, the U.S. and other markets, the newspaper said...
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- Scott Doggett June 12, 2008, 10:54 AM
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You know the commercial: Two skuzzy dudes in a Plymouth Duster stop at a red light beside a new Dodge Ram pickup towing a vintage Dodge Charger. The skuzzy passenger asks the Ram owner, "Hey, that thing got a Hemi?" The Ram owner replies, "Yeah." The light changes and the Ram beats the Duster to the next light. The Ram owner then asks the Plymouth passenger, "Did you mean the Charger? 'Cause, you know that's got a Hemi, too."
It brings a tear to your eye, don't it?..
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May 30, 2008
Celebrity poses with man in tree costume at launch party for green TV network.
By Scott Doggett, ContributorThe launch party for Planet Green, a 24-hour eco-lifestyle cable TV network that will displace the Home channel starting June 4, was anything but green.
The celebrities who attended Wednesday night 's event at L.A.'s Greek Theater mostly arrived in stretch limousines and gas-snorting SUVs. At least two – Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee and rapper Ludacris – arrived in personal buses.
The tabloid darlings strolled a green plastic carpet to a man in a tree costume to pose for paparazzi, oblivious to the live majestic oaks mere steps away.
Minutes later the celebrities were treated to cocktails "made from organic vodka" served in plastic cups and hors d'oeuvres made from macaroni and cheese served on plastic plates.
Oddly, the greenest VIPs at the event that we're aware of seemed to be the two men from General Motors Corp., who brought with them a fuel-cell vehicle and some positive automotive news.
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- Scott Doggett May 30, 2008, 11:17 AM
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May 21, 2008
It's turning into a banner year for hybrid and other green car news.
After all the Honda hoopla this morning, word leaks out that Toyota will debut the next-generation Prius, expected to be longer, lower and more powerful, but not radically different-looking, at the 2009 Detroit Auto Show with a sales launch slated for later in the year.
If that's not enough, Toyota's luxury marque, Lexus, is believed to be considering two new hybrids of its own, one of them a premium-priced version of that new Prius, the other a midsize crossover utility vehicle.
Edmunds.com's Inside Line has
the details.
We think its great news -- although our aching keyboarding fingers wish it had been spaced out a bit.
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- John O'Dell May 21, 2008, 5:51 PM
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April 15, 2008
Could fuel-slurping Nissan Titan's appetite shrink as a Chrysler-built truck?
By John O'Dell, Senior Editor
It wasn't long ago that most auto industry consultants – and auto industry insiders, at least those in the truck departments -- were poo-pooing the idea that rising gas prices and oil shortage concerns would bring big hurt to the full-size pickup market.
But sales of those trucks are off by 12.5%, and the first casualty has just been announced as Nissan Motor Corp. said Monday it can no longer justify building its slow-selling Titan pickup – a truck launched in 2003 with hopes of making Nissan a significant player in what some company insiders cheerily referred to as the BFT market ("B" for Big and "T" for Truck and you can fill in the rest).
The Titan isn't leaving the market – at least not yet – but it is leaving the billion-dollar assembly plant Nissan built in Canton, Miss., to handle its new big trucks.
Under a deal announced Monday, Chrysler – whose Dodge Ram proves its mettle in the big truck segment -- will build the next-generation Ttitan for Nissan at a plant in Saltillo, Mexico.
In return, Nissan – which does small cars a lot better than Chrysler – will supply a new small passenger car that its new "partner" will sell in the U.S., probably under the Chrysler brand.
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- John O'Dell April 15, 2008, 11:10 AM
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April 11, 2008
Hybrid version of BMW's X6 will hit U.S. roads as an '09 model.
BMW says a hybrid version of its X6 "activity vehicle" will, indeed, hit the U.S. market in 2009, initially available only with the company's twin-turbo, 407-horsepower, 4.4-liter V8 coupled to the dual-mode electric drive system co-developed with General Motors and the former DaimlerChrysler.
It's the automotive equivalent of strapping a hydrogen bomb to a nuclear bomb for extra oomph.
In that configuration the hefty X6 won't be the poster child for fuel economy, but it will use less gas than the conventional model.
BMW hasn't disclosed mileage estimates for the hybrid, but says it should be about 20 percent better than the 19 mpg combined city/highway rating for the conventional version. That would put it close to 23 mpg for drivers who can keep the accelerator pedal off the floor.
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- John O'Dell April 11, 2008, 3:33 PM
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Last June, as the market for full-size trucks tanked in response to high gas prices, Toyota shocked the auto industry by announcing that for $20,000 over base price buyers could purchase the full-size Tundra pickup, the midsize Tacoma pickup or the FJ Cruiser SUV with additional power and abysmal fuel economy.
