Still Dead: Dodge Ram Hybrid Pickup, With Or Without Diesel - Green Car Reports (blog)
Just last March, Chrysler definitively killed the Ram Hemi Hybrid pickup it had been developing for several years. RIP Hemi Hybrid. com that proposes that the company's Ram 1500 pickup truck will offer a Cummins 5. 0-liter turbodiesel, making it the first of the Detroit Three to offer a "small" diesel option in a light-duty pickup, along with a hybrid-electric transmission... According to the site, this was based on entries appearing in the company's Stars dealer-ordering system, which we can't confirm because we don't have access to it. We'd be all in favor of a light-duty diesel, but the real head-scratcher was the... Sales of the General Motors hybrid pickup twins (the Chevy Silverado Hybrid and GMC Sierra Hybrid) could politely be described as anemic. No light-duty diesel version of the Dodge Ram was included in Chrysler's recent blitz of more than a dozen relaunched models for 2011. While the diesel was supposedly offered in both regular and Quad-Cab models, the hybrid transmission requires a... Chrysler would have to buy Two-Mode Hybrid transmissions outright from General Motors, now the sole company carrying forward with that powertrain. Source: www.greencarreports.com
