{"id":5248,"date":"2021-01-10T00:50:45","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5248"},"modified":"2021-01-10T18:29:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T18:29:29","slug":"chrysler-shares-dollar31m-with-um-dearborn-for-plug-in-hybrid-ram-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5248","title":{"rendered":"Chrysler shares $3.1M with UM-Dearborn for plug-in hybrid Ram project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in early November, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/chrysler\/\">Chrysler<\/a> had its big business plan meeting, it became clear that most of the plug-in electric drive programs that the company has been promoting since early 2008 <a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/2009\/11\/07\/report-chrysler-disbands-envi-group-ev-development-will-contin\/\">were being abandoned<\/a>. One new test program that was announced was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/plug-in+hybrid\/\">plug-in hybrid<\/a> version of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/model\/ram+1500\">Ram<\/a> pickup. The PHEV truck will be based on the two-mode <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/hybrid\/\">hybrid<\/a> Ram that is launching in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Chrysler will be getting some help on the project from Professor Chris Mi at University of Michigan &#8211; Dearborn. Chrysler will be sharing $3.1 million of the $48 million grant it received as part of a stimulus bill plug-in development program. Mi will be developing a lab for the testing and characterization of electronics, batteries, motors and control systems. Chrysler hopes to have a test fleet of PHEV Rams on the road sometime in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.umd.umich.edu\/fullstory\/article\/Plugged_in\/\">University of Michigan &#8211; Dearborn<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/28\/chrysler-shares-3-1m-with-um-dearborn-for-plug-in-hybrid-ram-pr\/<\/p>\n<p>2009-12-28T11:49:00+00:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in early November, when Chrysler had its big business plan meeting, it became clear that most of the plug-in electric drive programs that the company has been promoting since early 2008 were being abandoned. One new test program that was\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autoblog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10135,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248\/revisions\/10135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}