Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Left Field

Chrysler has an "advanced" prototype electric vehicle that appears to directly compete with the Tesla? WTF? Where did that shit come from? Better yet, the Chrysler EV is also (like the Tesla) based on a Lotus sourced chassis. I pretty much ignored a story a couple weeks ago that was talking about Chrysler having eight new vehicles on the road by 2011 because it seemed so incredibly impossible. If Chrysler is pursuing partnerships with Nissan and Lotus then maybe that wasn't so far fetched.

So Chrysler moves back a few inches on my deathwatch scale.

Oh BTW, wonder why Tesla and now Chrysler are basing cars on Lotus rolling stock? Lotus is beyond compare in the arena of building super lightweight cars...exactly what you need for extremely economical electric vehicles where weight is the enemy.

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