Comments on: Chrysler's Hybrid ENVI

By: Wolfy

Wolfy — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:29:32 +0000

What a joke! These behemoths get about one to two miles a gallon better than their non-hybrid look-alikes. Guess you can slap the title “hybrid” or “green” on anything and some fool will but it. Even at $5 to 10 K more! These are meant for the power elite to brag about owning a “hybrid” vehicle, nothing more.

By: David M

David M — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:02:58 +0000

Guys..guys … follow the money and you will see why companies do what the do. Do you really think we are feeding the big 3…The oil companies need the big 3 to make a complete revolution of cash flow to their pockets
We bailed Chrysler by buy The K CAR forced by our government. Which it is held for ransom by companies that threat to unemploy workers if they do what they want like buy the “junk”.
notice all fear about the economy when there is a election comes arround.The People will always bail out the Big 3.not because we want to but because we have no choice. to have a 4 car maker builder in an other part of the country

By: Doug Korthof

Doug Korthof — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:49:17 +0000

Instead of building an existing EV, like the Toyota RAV4-EV, still running and more left on the road than ALL fuel cell cars, ENVI is doing dual-mode B.S., still a gas car.

By: Louise

Louise — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 23:07:32 +0000

I don’t believe “manufacturers only cater to what people are buying.” Quite the opposite! If so, we would have had electric vehicles like the EV1 long ago.

By: ex-EV1 driver

ex-EV1 driver — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:28:32 +0000

If “manufacturers only cater to what people are buying”, then why did they take my EV1 away from me and crush it? They never even gave me a chance to buy it and only a few people in only 2 states were even given the chance to lease it. Nearly everyone who had them loved them.

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:18:22 +0000

It’s remarkable to see people griping and complaining about things . . . so 40 years ago, Detroit came out with smaller more fuel effient vehicles with V6 engines, small light V8′s and other innovations (Pontiac Tempest/Buick Special/etc…), Ford Falcon, etc… and the buying public did what? So fuel efficient four cylinder cars were brought out, and with advanced (for the time especially) technology like turbos, smaller engines . . . and where did people go? If you look back in time, manufacturers only cater to what people are buying.

By: Bert

Bert — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:31:01 +0000

http://www.hybridtechnologies.com

check out the multimedia section.. good to see these companies forging ahead…

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:46:15 +0000

Bush should realize the enthanol track is bound to be a bust and SHOULD devote more research dollars to battery technology and electric powered transportation. Real hybrids work using true 100% battery power at a given time. Every American system is still considered a weak hybrid system.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:41:08 +0000

……and the K-Car saved the company. It looks like our society may be reaching critical mass when a company like Chrysler sees going green as a good business strategy. Press is no idiot. He will be stepping into a complete mess. No matter what he does it will be looked on as a wonderful thing. I own a Prius but cannot wait for a US manufacturer to finally start selling a similar or better product. Good luck to Chrysler but I will keep buying foreign cars until they finally pony up, which might be sooner than later. Lithium cell technology is the key to all of this. Bush is not a complete idiot he listened to someone with a brain when he decided to commit significant federal dollars to research in that area. Though I have no idea if he ever followed through on the funding.

By: Randal

Randal — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:07:45 +0000

Well, good luck to Chrysler and the equity firm, but the last time someone came to Chrysler’s rescue, we got the K-Car.