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It has been officially announced that Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV plans to invest a huge amount of money at two Midwest assembly plants for future production of Jeep SUVs. This is actually more than $1 billion. They also aim to create 1000 new jobs. The automaker is going to invest about $700 million and add 700 work places at the Toledo Assembly Complex North plant for production of the next-generation Jeep Wrangler. The company will also invest $350 million and add about 300 new workers at its Belvidere Assembly in Illinois to produce the Jeep Cherokee. Production of t...
Probably all of us have already heard about the Nissan's Leaf electric vehicle. The Japanese automaker is currently introducing a hybrid version of the Murano. Taking into account that the number of produced cars is expected to be small, the Murano Hybrid model could become a collector's item. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) certified that the hybrid crossover gets a combined 29 miles per gallon for the front-wheel drive version and 28 mpg for the all-wheel-drive version. The conventional Murano gets 24 mpg in both FWD and AWD. In fact, Nissan does not have ter...
Probably all of us were convinced that the US plug-in vehicle sales increase every week, but this is not what actually happens. When Tesla Motor released its second-quarter deliveries, it turned out that the sale expectations were not fulfilled. Tesla considers that the huge truck sales spoil the statistics. A week ago Tesla Motors announced that it delivered 14370 cars for the quarter. Among them there are 9,745 Model S sedans and 4,625 Model X SUVs. It was revealed that this delivery rate was the California-based automaker's lowest since the third quarter of 2014. It turned ou...
As it was revealed, the auto industry is concerned about the new fuel economy standards, which are going to be even tighter soon. So far, automakers have been able to meet tougher emissions and fuel economy standards. It will be more difficult soon, as between 2018 and 2025 these standards will be much tougher. According to the research made at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), the US new-vehicle fuel economy decreases in June. The market share of SUVs and pickup trucks rose, while new hybrid, plug-in hybrid, electric and hydrogen-powered vehicles...
It seems to us that people have finally realized the importance of light trucks, and SUV's considering this month the auto sales have risen thanks to these cars. Across, the industry June sales hit a new record for the month, rising 7.4% to 191,088 on an annual basis. It's incredibly important to notice that the sales on trucks, SUV's and vans have grown not for 4-5% but for 14% at one time, which of course is a big step for automakers. Yeah, of course we are deeply sad for the sedans sales considering they fell 2.9% but even that didn't change the thing that we stepped into an...
