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Mileage or money? Fiat Chrysler pays for missing fuel economy targets

Green Car Reports

It turns out there's more than one way for automakers to meet fuel-economy targets. The other—as demonstrated over the years by quite a few automakers—is to pay fuel economy fines to the U.S. That's the course Fiat Chrysler took for. One is to develop and sell more fuel-efficient cars and trucks.

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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles joining BMW Group, Intel and Mobileye in developing global autonomous driving platform; Level 4/5 by 2021

Green Car Congress

BMW Group, Intel and Mobileye signed a memorandum of understanding with the intention for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) to be the first automaker to join them in developing a world-leading, state-of-the-art autonomous driving platform for global deployment. Earlier post.) —FCA Chief Executive Officer Sergio Marchionne.

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FCA US to deliver thousands of Chrysler Pacifica plug-in Hybrid Minivans to Waymo’s self-driving service

Green Car Congress

FCA US LLC announced an agreement to supply “thousands” of Chrysler Pacifica plug-in Hybrid minivans ( earlier post ) to Waymo to support the launch of its driverless ride-hailing service. Last November, Waymo began test-driving a fleet of Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans on public roads without a driver at the wheel. Earlier post.)

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Fiat boosts stake in Chrysler to 58.5% after achieving fuel economy and production commitment milestone with the new Dart

Green Car Congress

Fiat has boosted its interest in the Chrysler Group by another 5% following Chrysler’s achievement of the “Ecological Event”—receiving regulatory approval for an automobile based on a Fiat platform or vehicle technology having a fuel efficiency rating of at least 40 combined miles per gallon (5.88 Earlier post.).

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How Ironic Is It That Stellantis Is Now Making A Profit On Plugin Vehicles?

CleanTechnica EVs

Former Fiat Chrysler Automobiles CEO Sergio Marchionne. Stellantis was one of the biggest laggards in electric cars for several years. continued] The post How Ironic Is It That Stellantis Is Now Making A Profit On Plugin Vehicles? appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Chrysler to introduce PHEV models in 2016 and 2017 to meet ZEV requirements; new FCA gasoline engine family coming in 2015

Green Car Congress

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles’ (FCA) Chrysler Brand will launch two plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEV) over the next several years, said Al Gardner, President and CEO of the Chrysler Brand, during the FCA Investor Day presentations at Auburn Hills, Mi. FCA will launch a PHEV minivan in 2016 to comply with ZEV requirements.

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2017 Chrysler Pacifica fuel economy review

Green Car Reports

They say you never really forget how to ride a bike, but if you're Chrysler, you may temporarily forget how to build a minivan. Its last generation of Chrysler Town & Country and Dodge Grand Caravan minivans were, frankly, subpar.