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Stellantis Enters EV Battery Recycling Agreement

CleanTechnica EVs

Stellantis, the company formerly-known as Fiat-Chrysler before a key merger and the manufacturer of iconic vehicles like the Jeep brand and Dodge’s muscle cars, recently announced a plan and a partnership to make sure more EVs get batteries recycled at end-of-life.

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Chrysler CEO Underscores, Again: Electric Fiat 500e Loses Money

Green Car Reports

But last week''s little media explosion over Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne''s negative comments on the 2014 Fiat 500e electric car his company sells--in limited numbers, in California only--shouldn''t be a surprise. To summarize his comments in a Reuters article that appeared last.'

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Reports Of Tesla’s Demise In China Are Much Exaggerated

CleanTechnica EVs

A few media articles were hinting that Tesla wasn’t doing so well in China. ” The article quoted Bill Russo, a former Chrysler executive who is currently the chief executive officer of Automobility Ltd. One in particular by Bloomberg mentioned a “fall from grace in China.”

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Chrysler Changes Its Mind About EVs

Revenge of the Electric Car

As the race to produce mass market EVs heats up, Chrysler has pulled out of the contest. More details below: Chrysler dismantles electric car plans under Fiat. “As late as August, Chrysler took $70 million in grants from the U.S. Read the text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link].

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Junkyard Find: 1986 Dodge Aries SE Four-Door Sedan

The Truth About Cars

Lee Iacocca 's Chrysler Corporation sold K-Cars in the United States for the 1981 through 1989 model years, saving itself from near-certain bankruptcy in the process. Chrysler did perhaps the best job of recreating the occupant experience of, say, a Plymouth Satellite sedan in a vehicle that got twice the fuel economy. liter Chrysler.

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Junkyard Find: 1948 Dodge Custom Sedan

The Truth About Cars

Chrysler managed the feat for the 1949 model year; we admired a Plymouth Special Deluxe sedan from that year in a Colorado car graveyard last summer, and today we're going to take a look at an example of one of the last of the stopgap postwar Chrysler products : this '48 Dodge in a yard just south of Denver.

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Junkyard Find: 2007 Mini Cooper S

The Truth About Cars

The "New Mini" first appeared in North American showrooms as a 2002 model, as part of the turn-of-the-century wave of retro-styled machinery that included the Volkswagen New Beetle , Chrysler PT Cruiser and Chevrolet HHR. and its Chrysler/Rover ancestry. Here's an '07 Cooper S model in a Colorado yard. New for 2007 was this 1.6-liter

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