{"id":474319,"date":"2010-03-26T09:30:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T13:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/?p=41549"},"modified":"2010-03-26T09:30:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T13:30:39","slug":"chrysler-halts-development-on-hybrid-pickup-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/474319","title":{"rendered":"Chrysler Halts Development on Hybrid Pickup Truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/chrysler-halts-development-on-hybrid-pickup-truck\/2009ram\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41550\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009Ram.jpg\" alt=\"Dodge Ram\" title=\"2009Ram\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41550\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now this is something that I would&#8217;ve assumed to have been common sense. I mean did Chrysler really think that real pickup truck owners would want to be seen in something that says &#8220;HYBRID&#8221; on it? I understand that it&#8217;s great to be environmentally conscious, but people who use pickups, and I mean really <em>use<\/em> pickups want a vehicle that simply does the job. They&#8217;re looking for a truck that&#8217;s easy to use, relatively maintenance free and will run forever. That&#8217;s the American pickup truck consumer. <\/p>\n<p>General Motors went down this road last year and sold only 1,576 hybrid pickup trucks. Hardly worth the development cost if you ask me. Like I said, pickup truck owners want ease of use, power and reliability. So, instead of going all nutty with the hybrids, how about focusing on something more consumer friendly like a nice high torque clean diesel &#8211; sound like a good idea?<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/blog\/1043680_chrysler-kills-ram-two-mode-hybrid-pickup-truck-after-all\">http:\/\/www.greencarreports.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/1iQExFsHpVy02Owf_coQqFZfmT8\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/1iQExFsHpVy02Owf_coQqFZfmT8\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/1iQExFsHpVy02Owf_coQqFZfmT8\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/1iQExFsHpVy02Owf_coQqFZfmT8\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now this is something that I would&#8217;ve assumed to have been common sense. I mean did Chrysler really think that real pickup truck owners would want to be seen in something that says &#8220;HYBRID&#8221; on it? I understand that it&#8217;s great to be environmentally conscious, but people who use pickups, and I mean really use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}