"Wobbles the Mind" (wobblesthemind)
12/01/2016 at 17:03 • Filed to: Dodge EV
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"Wobbles the Mind" (wobblesthemind)
12/01/2016 at 17:03 • Filed to: Dodge EV | 4
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Remember when Dodge built a Tesla Roadster on the Lotus Europa platform, the bigger version of the Elise platform used by Tesla? Had 268 hp and 295 lb-ft to 480 lb-ft of torque from its electric motor, 35 kWh battery, and about 150-200 miles of range in a car that weighed about 2,650 lbs. Was water-cooled rather than air-cooled (take that Tesla!). Used the same all electric powertrain that was going to go into the Town and Counrty, Wrangler, and Patriot (though all of those had a range extender).
Go read about it in its !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . It will also remind you about Chysler’s ENVI projects, how they planned to sell 100,000 electric vehicles per year back at the start of the 2010s, and how this little electric roadster would have replaced the Viper during that 2010-2013 gap and been priced for under $100,000 (which would undercut the $110,000+ Tesla Roadster.
Oh Chrysler...crazy to think you would have been a direct competitor to Tesla if the 2008 Financial Apocalypse hadn’t of happened and killed off the ENVI division and its projects at the end of 2009. So less than 6 months after that road test with C&D Chrysler went from an EV dominant future to just offering an electric Fiat 500 (which Segio urged everyone not to buy because they lost like $14,000 on each one), the LaFerrari (so efficient), and the Pacifica PHEV as their hybrid/electric vehicles a decade later...
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> Wobbles the Mind
12/01/2016 at 17:16 |
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I was so hyped for this car in High School.
Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)
> Wobbles the Mind
12/01/2016 at 17:56 |
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I was so excited about this and their Miata competitor Razor concept
DanZman
> Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)
12/01/2016 at 18:13 |
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Still looks good. Outdated now, but still good.
facw
> Wobbles the Mind
12/01/2016 at 18:20 |
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I do not remember that. I do remember when GM had a Daewoo Lotus:
(The fact crappy badge engineering job is on a platform labeled “Driving Innovation” tells you a lot about GM I think...)
HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
> DanZman
12/01/2016 at 19:41 |
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It’s a lot like a MR2 Spyder the ZZW30. I think with more modern headlights it could still work today, and of coarse it would need racetrack taillights.
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HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
> Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)
12/01/2016 at 19:41 |
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I still that thing looks great,
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HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
> facw
12/01/2016 at 19:42 |
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Was it actually sold as a Deawoo in other, I’m guessing Asian, markets.
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HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
> Wobbles the Mind
12/01/2016 at 19:44 |
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The 2008 economic crash killed this car and gave us an ugly “Avenger”. Which was really just a boxy Stratus.
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facw
> HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
12/01/2016 at 19:48 |
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Yeah, Daewoo in Asia (and actually, looking quickly it’s not clear that any of these were actually sold to the public as Daewoos), Opel Speedster in continental Europe, and Vauxhall VX220 in the UK. The big difference from the Lotus version was the use of a more powerful GM engine, instead of the Elise’s Toyota powerplant.
IanZ - limited-slip indifferential
> Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)
12/01/2016 at 22:13 |
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That wraparound-ish windshield is bomb.
Orange Exige
> Wobbles the Mind
12/01/2016 at 22:36 |
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Man I remember this car (because it was a skinned Lotus) but I don’t remember that it was supposed to be electric.
Definitely would have been interesting if it did happen for real.
Even the Tesla Roadster wasn’t crazy successful or popular, so I’m thinking something like this, especially coming from an everyday Dodge brand, wouldn’t have really affected the tide of future cars drastically.
Tesla definitely stands out as a successful underdog and just the right amount of crazy to push the industry beyond where it was and I don’t any major American car manufacturer - or most any foreign either - could have done that (quite as quickly).