Chrysler has been testing a variety of different configurations of hybrid
Dodge Sprinter vans with various fleet operators for some time now. These have been equipped with either gas or
diesel engines and nickel metal hydride or lithium ion batteries. The company is now getting ready to build a new fleet of up to twenty-two Sprinters this fall equipped with the latest generation of lithium ion battery packs from Johnson Controls/Saft. JCS is one of the two companies that has development contracts with
GM to supply packs for the plug-in version of the
Saturn Vue two-mode
hybrid. The new fleet will use both gas and diesel engines and be tested in a variety of weather conditions.
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