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A quick five minutes exploring the STLA Large platform to underpin the next Dodge Charger and many other cars
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hi my name is Dave and I'm here to guide
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you through the uh stla large platform
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or if you want to call it that Stella
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large or stellantis large basically it's
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a large car platform that is insanely
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flexible so let's go and take a look at
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what it can do and what it can't do so
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you see it here in all of its Glory from
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a side view uh I'm assuming that this is
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just one serving suggestion and that it
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can come in others because the platform
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is to be used for front wheel drive rear
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wheel drive and all-wheel drive in what
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in Europe they call d and e sizes and
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here we would call charger and 300 C
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size if we wanted to uh would include
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the charger the Maserati quadr Port the
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Maserati jibli the Jeep Grand Cherokee
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the Pacifica it's supposed to underly
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all of these vehicles and many more so
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as you can imagine it's got a crazy
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amount of flexibility in the wheelbase
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the length the width the height the
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ground clear
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even the engine mounting can be either
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transverse which some of us call
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sideways or longitudinal and of course
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it can go with electric cars so it can
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take suspension modules and powertrain
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cradles to deal with all these variables
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and all the insanity so it could handle
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something like an O car like a 300M or
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an Intrepid it can handle a presumably a
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minivan like the Pacifica and it can
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also handle a rip roaring Dodge
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Challenger the plat platform has the
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capability of dealing with something
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with 1,000 horsepower basically uh they
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haven't said that specifically but they
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said it can handle something with more
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power than a Hellcat and Hellcat as you
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know went up to 1,25
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horsepower uh it's a native battery
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electric platform they say with 4 800
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volt architectures and they're going to
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be using 3 in-1 electric Drive modules
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that have the motor inverter and gear
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reduction included and they're planning
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to do Transmissions at least two-speed
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Transmissions maybe more with those
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electrics the length of the platform was
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supposed to be
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107.6 to 2.8 in long and the width is
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supposed to go with a 5.2 in variance
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from about 75 to about 80 in again it's
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quite a wide range but it gets even
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crazier the ground clearance can go from
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5 1/2 up to 11.3 in and the wheelbase
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goes go from 113 in to
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12.1 so it's really a pretty flexible
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amazing platform which makes you wonder
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how is it really a platform and the
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answer is it's hard to tell it is kind
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of an easel for you to put in a whole
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bunch of subcomponent modules and
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packages so you can put in the hurricane
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I6 and you can have it mounted the
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traditional way uh chances are you know
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you can do a front-wheel drive
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longitudinal setup and the old LH cars
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did that they all had the engines
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mounted as though it was a rear wheeel
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drive car you can still have front-wheel
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drive with that which raises some
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interesting questions about a possible
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Chrysler based on the Dodge Charger that
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we've already been shown using
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front-wheel drive for better packaging
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maybe could happen might not happen they
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might go all crossover because again
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this platform can do crossovers before
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the charger comes out the closest to
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stla large or Stella large or however
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you pronounce it the closest thing that
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we've seen to it is probably the Jeep
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Grand Cherokee that exists now there's
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really uh not much trace of the old
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Julia dead end platform in here it is a
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fascinating uh platform it's going to
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probably be under a huge number of cars
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there is two factories right now that
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are being dedicated to it one in Canada
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one in Mexico so on average in the
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United States and sta medium which will
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almost certainly be all front drive and
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all-wheel drive is going to take up
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another Canadian Factory what happens to
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the other American plants while there's
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sta frame and there's also going to be
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probably enough cars to keep everybody
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really busy and happy for quite a while
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stay tuned on stalp power.com for all
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the news on all the stantis stuff at
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least all the stantis stuff in North
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America by which we mean all the Mopar
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stuff I'll see you there
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