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Italian Government Upset Alfa Romeo ‘Milano’ Will Be Built in Poland

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Assembly is slated to take place at the Tychy plant in Poland. That’d be like Ford or General Motors producing something called “The Detroit” and then having it built somewhere in Mexico. "A A car called Milano cannot be produced in Poland. made "parmesan" cheese resembling Italy's "parmigiano".

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GM to invest $341M in plant in Poland for new mid-size diesel engine

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General Motors will build its new generation midsize diesel engine family at the GM Manufacturing Poland plant in Tychy. The GM Manufacturing Poland plants in Gliwice and Tychy employ 3,500 people. With today’s announcement, total GM investments in Poland will amount to more than €1 billion (US$1.4

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Fiat Powertrain Acquiring GMs Share of Poland 1.3L Diesel Engine JV

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Fiat Powertrain Technologies (FPT) and General Motors (GM) have signed a preliminary share transfer agreement for FPT to acquire GM’s 50% share in FIAT-GM Powertrain Polska, an engine manufacturing joint venture in the special economic zone of Bielsko- Biala, Poland.

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Fuel-cell Ram HD pickup included in Stellantis hydrogen rollout

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Following the start of at-scale production of fuel-cell vehicles in Poland later this year, Stellantis plans to start building a fuel-cell version of the Ram 5500 in Mexico, for the North American market, Jean-Michel Billig said in the interview.

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Ford announces new battery production facility JV with LG

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LG has already worked with Ford Europe to supply the automaker with batteries at its assembly plant in Poland. LG has perhaps worked most closely with General Motors , which collaborated on establishing a battery joint venture company, Ultium. However, this would be the Korean battery maker’s first JV facility with Ford.

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Stellantis Investors Fume Over CEO Pay Amid Job Cuts, Plant Closures, Supplier Strife

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As for the shifting production locales, we touched on this a little when we noted that the Alfa Romeo Milano ( now known as the “Junior” ) had angered the Italian Business Minister due to being produced in Poland. However, Stellantis is also trying to shift EV assembly to places like Morocco due to their lower-than-average labor costs.

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MIT study finds real-world NOx from diesels cars in Europe greatly exceeds laboratory levels; transboundary emissions cause 70% of health impacts

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The researchers considered 10 major auto manufacturers of diesel cars sold in Europe, for which lab and on-road emissions data were available: Volkswagen, Renault, Peugeot-Citroën, Fiat, Ford, General Motors, BMW, Daimler, Toyota, and Hyundai.

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