One reason for the industry shift is that electric vehicles are simply faster off the starting line. Their handling is typically better, too, because their heavy batteries create a low center of gravity.
Tim Kuniskis, CEO of the Dodge brand, said the possibly of government fines for not meeting gas-mileage requirements hastened the shift to the electric Charger. “Compliance fines and things like that associated with a big cast-iron supercharged V8, yes, it’s tough,” he said.“Over the next several years, I think we’ll continue to have some internal combustion stuff, probably through most of the decade,” said Sam Abuelsamid, a research analyst at Guidehouse Insights.
When the electric Charger was driven through a garage door and entered a building Wednesday night at a racetrack in Pontiac, Michigan, it roared just like a gas muscle car. Rick Nelson, the owner of Musclecar Restoration & Design in Pleasant Plains, Illinois, near Springfield, cautioned that switching from loud fuel-burning engines to quiet electricity may be a hard sell to old-timers who grew up with the sounds and smells of racing.
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Hear me out, what's the point of a big engine noise if climate disasters have killed us all? Who's going to hear the cool noise? At least this way you can still take the old cars to track meetups and stuff. The way that destroys our planet? Nobody would ever hear them again.
I had no idea Dodge was ending gas production so quickly. I believe there is significant, and growing, appetite for electric cars, I’m less sure the sunset on gas cars is 12-18 months. I would think there would still be demand for five plus years.
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