Yes on paper this looks like a great and very practical vehicle for many people, but boy am I hesitant to buy a Chrysler product with this amount of drivetrain complexity. You've got everything that can fail in a fairly high tech ICE drivetrain, plus everything that can fail in an EV drivetrain, made by the lowest reliability major automaker.
> You've got everything that can fail in a fairly high tech ICE drivetrain, plus everything that can fail in an EV drivetrain
You should seriously look up the drivetrain of hybrids.
The planetary gearset is a single set of gears that functions as the alternator/generator, the starter/EV motor, the transmission, and the engine driveshaft.
Its not "different" or "new" components. Its a singular design that accomplishes what 3x different parts of the car used to do seperately. There's a reason why Toyota Hybrids are $23k, its a lot cheaper and more efficient to do it this way.
You needed the starter anyway. When its beefed up to a full-size EV motor that can drive the car, its more powerful and more durable.
You needed the alternator anyway. When its beefed up to a full-sized generator, its more powerful and more durable.
When the ICE engine operates at its ideal RPM (rather than directly connected to the road), it can be made cheaper, more reliable, smaller, more efficiently than when its the only thing moving the car.
Hybrids are superior to ICE, and Prius shows how to do it with more reliability. Now yes, Chrysler is terrible with reliability, but that's nothing to do with Hybrids and everything to do with Chrysler.
Honestly, passenger van / road trip vehicle makes the most sense in PHEV form factor out of all other styles IMO.