11-10-2007, 12:44 AM
Big improvement will be at schools, drive throughs, traffic lights, rail road crossing, and other places where you have to sit and wait with the engine running. The computer can shut the engine off and run the first 30 mph on all electric motor and battery before it has to restart the engine if the battery has a good charge on it. They're also going to use the Cylinder De-activation on it with the larger V-8 and program things to work together so that if there may be a need for a bit more power the motors will back up the engine while it's cruising the highway in it's 4 cylinder mode! Chrysler is going to be using this on the Hybrid version of the Durango and Aspen with the MDS equipped Hemi motor as well.