Chrysler launch to barrage a gasoline-electric amalgam adaptation of its latest bearing 300 sedan, the advice appear by aggregation CEO Sergio Marchionne at the 2011 Detroit Auto Show endure week. It will be adapted with an eight-speed automated manual and will be on auction in 2013."We will action a amalgam alternative of the 300 able with an eight-speed automated in 2013," Marchionne accepted in Detroit endure week.
The latest advertisement from Marchionne reignites Chrysler's amalgam plans, which had collapsed by the wayside anytime aback the company's defalcation affliction of 2009. Prior to that Chrysler had appear affairs for a accomplished ambit of avant-garde hybrid, constituent amalgam and electric cars to be developed beneath its ENVI division. However, a abridgement of allotment meant the ENVI accumulation was affected to be disbanded and a lot of of its originals affairs put on the backburner.
The technology destined for the new Chrysler 300 hybrid sedan is likely to be very different to the Hemi V-8 powered ‘Two-Mode’ hybrid drivetrain installed in the previous Dodge Durango and Chrysler Aspen hybrid SUVs back in 2008. Expect to see a small electric motor paired with the Pentastar V-6 engine in Chrysler’s latest hybrid endeavor.