Chrysler reveals his new Halcyon Concept car for thier future EVs. The Halcyon, unveiled Tuesday morning, is a handsome sedan that’s designed to illustrate the brand’s tagline of Harmony in Motion in one over-arching concept. It is seemingly nothing like a production car coming any time soon, an interesting choice for a brand expected to reveal its first production EV in the near future.
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The concept car is a sleek, future-looking sports car that’s designed to incorporate emerging technologies such as autonomous driving and new battery materials and charging capabilities for electric vehicles. It features an updated Chrysler logo as well as other design characteristics that officials say will carry over into production vehicles.
The exterior is unique; a sleek four-door design with plenty of glass. A massive windscreen oriented toward the road highlights an exterior design that is 45 percent glass and focused on driver visibility. Innovative doors, which the brand calls “Red Carpet Entry,” are meant to allow a driver to enter a low sedan with the relative ease of a larger vehicle.
Inside, the cabin is designed for both the user-controlled driving that is plausible today and theoretical future autonomous systems. That means interior functions that fold away to make the car a more welcoming space on longer road trips and augmented reality projections onto the car’s glass displays. These ideas are all more theoretical than practical, and they are not exactly new to the modern autonomous concept car circuit.
“We want Chrysler to be advanced, for sure,” Christine Feuell, brand CEO for Chrysler, said in a briefing last month. “But we want to introduce technology and advanced experiences for real life, and not just as a science project.”
Chrysler CEO Christine Feuell, who started leading the brand in September 2021, said the company expects to roll out such a lineup of vehicles “in quick succession” after the EV crossover next year.
She said Chrysler’s parent companies did not invest in the brand “for a very long time.”
“I would always love to have more and faster, but I can tell you that over the last few years, we’ve not only grown sales, we’ve improved the profitability of the brand significantly,” Feuell said. She said despite slower-than-expected adoption of the EV sales in the U.S., the company remains on track for its transition.
Feuell said the brand, which sold roughly 144,000 vehicles last year in the U.S. and Canada, “made a very good profit” in 2023. Those earnings will assist in funding the future vehicles inspired by the Halcyon concept, she said.
