Hydrogen power continues to attract investments by companies around the world; the latest announcement comes from Stellantis, which is able to make hydrogen fuel cell and electric vans with the same basic bodies. The new announcement comes in 2024, as Stellantis has predicted. Stellantis has started industrial scale production of hydrogen fuel cell vans for … Read more
Jeep parent FCA US has filed for a patent to solve one problem of off-roading electric vehicles—the need for spending long amounts of time at low speeds, with high torque on tap. A patent filed earlier this week, credited to Richard S. Silbert, has one solution: a two-speed gearbox to provide the EV equivalent of 4xe Low.
As time goes on, some have noticed that the Ram 1500 Classic only shows up as a 2023 model in the RamTrucks.com Build & Price section. However, a bit of quick detective work shows that the 2024 Ram 1500 Classic is indeed on the site, just not in Build & Price yet. That is one mystery solved, but then there’s another question that keeps popping up—what happens to the Ram 2500, 3500, and chassis cabs after the 2024 model-year? And will the first-year 2025 Ram 1500 have Hemi V8s after all?
…As for the Ram Heavy Duty series,…
Jeep bested Land Rover/Range Rover in the UK’s top car magazine, WhatCar?, in its only off-road class: Family SUV for Off-Roading. The Jeep Wrangler Rubicon won the contest, with its turbocharged four-cylinder producing 272 hp and eight-speed automatic. The editor, Steve Huntingford, wrote that this “shows that off-roading is still at Jeep’s core.” The new … Read more
One of the more popular modifications to Wranglers has been 35-inch tires; but the factory never made this available for the classic two-door Jeeps, until now. Jeep has just announced the 2024 Wrangler two-door’s Xtreme 35 tire package, available only on the Rubicon and Willys. It comes three years after its debut on the four-door … Read more
The 2023 Jeep Wrangler started at $31,195; 4xe models were much pricier, partly because they started at a higher option level and only come with four doors; the cheapest (Sport S) 4xe starts at $54,735. Those who lease a new 4xe, admittedly, have a $7,500 incentive to take off the price. Despite competition from the … Read more
Stellantis has purchased the intellectual property rights and patents of CloudMade to support the “SmartCockpit.” CloudMade has an “AI-powered framework” which Stellantis claimed is “the industry-leading cloud and software development kit for collecting and analyzing automotive data sets.” CloudMade’s 44 employees are also joining Stellantis. The goal is to provide: Predictive maintenance and diagnostics, especially … Read more
Today, we look at a short list of specifications of the STLA Large chassis platform, relative to the current Dodge Challenger and Charger and the Jeep Wagoneer.
STLA Large will support front-, rear- and all-wheel-drive configurations, with combustion engines in both transverse and longitudinal layouts…
Last week, Ram finally unveiled the 2025 Ram ProMaster EV, complete with a new front-end appearance. This update does not just refresh the commercial van; it also continues the long road to making Fiat’s original van design more palatable to discerning palates.
Here are five key things to know about the ProMaster EV:
Every sales figure, product release, and rumor from Dodge and Ram seem to bring forth disparaging remarks from people who insist that the company is “digging its own graves by making nothing but BEVs.” Yet, even before the first battery-electric Dodge has been put up for sale, before the Hemi V8 stopped being optional, people … Read more
Earlier today, Stellantis issued a press release on the STLA Large vehicle platform that is to underpin the Dodge Charger Daytona, Jeep Wagoneer S, and other vehicles. Their objective was to highlight the versatility of this platform, which handles both gasoline and battery electric vehicles (BEV), but what caught our attention was a performance figure … Read more
The Jeep Wagoneer S battery electric vehicle was first announced as a concept back in September 2022 with minimal detail and frankly, we haven’t learned much new about since then. Members of the Jeep team have referenced the upcoming electric Wagoneer at various media events, but we still don’t know a whole lot about the … Read more
Last week we brought you the news of Dodge “teasing” the next generation Charger in a series of images on social media. We put teasing in quotes because the company didn’t tease the new model so much as give us a pretty clear look at the new Charger from the front, side and rear. It … Read more
Stellantis announced this morning that the automaker has reached a deal with the “premium mobility service provider” SIXT which could see the rental car company purchase a quarter of a million vehicles for Europe and North America. SIXT is one of the largest rental car brands in Europe, but they are relatively new in the … Read more
When the 2023 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 was introduced last spring as the first production muscle car with more than a thousand horsepower while being limited to 3,000 units for the United States (and another 300 for Canada), it was obvious that this was going to be a hot car for flippers. Since the … Read more
Stellantis may have had sales problems in the United States and Canada last year, but in Europe, they had a decent amount of good news. Across 29 EU countries, Stellantis claimed an 18.4% overall market share, 30% cargo van share, and 14% BEV share. Sales grew by around 6% overall, with a 14% gain in … Read more