Chrysler Unveiled Dodge ZEO - Electric Car w/ 64kWh Li-ion on Detroit Show

Chrysler LLC unveiled the Dodge ZEO, an electric vehicle concept car with a 64kWh Li-ion rechargeable battery at the 2008 Detroit Motor Show (2008 North American International Auto Show, public showing from Jan 19 to 27, 2008).

It runs 250 miles (approx. 402km) for one battery charge. The manufacturer of the battery has yet to be announced, Chrysler said. The schedule for the commercialization is not decided, either. The name "ZEO" stands for "zero emission operation."

It is a rear wheel drive car with a 200kW motor mounted on its rear side. It weighs 1,202kg. The time required to reach 60mph (96km/h) from the halt state is 5.7 seconds. The top speed is 209km/h.

"The motor and the battery account for most of the vehicle weight," the company said.

It is a four-door (two sets of double doors), four-passenger car without the B-pillar. White LED is used for the headlights. The indicators and the center console are arranged using LCD displays on the instrument panel. All of the three concept cars exhibited by the company at the Show use LCD displays for indicators on the instrument panel.

The body measures 4,390 (L) x 1,743 (W) x 1,290mm (H), and the wheelbase is 2,792mm long.

Chrysler set up an in-house organization dubbed "ENVI," which is specializing in the development of technologies for electric and hybrid vehicles, in late 2007. And the company unveiled three motor-driven concept cars at a stroke at this year's show.

They are ecoVoyager, which mounts a fuel cell and a Li-ion rechargeable battery, Jeep Renegade, a diesel hybrid vehicle with a Li-ion rechargeable battery and Dodge ZEO.

CES-2008: Photos of best cars

The Consumer Electronics Show is absolutely massive, in case you didn't know. Thanks to its gargantuan stature, it's hard to not see a bit of everything while perusing the halls. PCs, monitors, gadgets and the like are just some of the few things you will find. But there is so much more... especially in the north hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Of course, I am talking about cars. The north hall was jam packed (no understatement) with cars of various makes and models and production years. It's hard to place a finger on what wasn't there, actually. In this pictorial, we will be taking a look at almost all of the cars we stumbled on during our travels with everything ranging from a Mini Cooper to Mercedes SL500 to El Camino to Lotus Exige to Hummer H3 to Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera to Buick Enclave. Wait, what? Yes... everything.

First and foremost... I do not know the name of every single car here, and won't pretend to. Therefore, only a few of the cars will have names below them, and even then, they may be slightly off. My knowledge lacks with older cars especially, so some discrepancies may be found.

Pontiac Trans-Am

Lexus IS 350

Feelin' Blue

I caught a bug at CES

Stand By Your Van.. Unless Your IQ Is Half Its Decibel Count

Porsche Cayman

Tesla Roadster

Ford Mustang "JL Audio Special Edition"

Chrysler 300

Chrysler 300

Whoa...

Mini Cooper

Huge is good. Huge is very good.

Ford GT

Mercedes SL Roadster

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