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REPORT: Chrysler could ditch Cummins for Fiat diesel power 2 months ago on Autoblog Green

For years, diesel-powered Dodge Ram pickup trucks have featured powerful inline six-cylinder engines from Cummins. By all accounts, the partnership has been successful and the Cummins diesel engines are highly regarded in the industry. Therefore, it wasn't exactly shocking to hear that the ...

Obama announces battery grants: Big Three, Michigan, li-ion companies come out winners 3 months ago on Autoblog Green

At the closed and then re-openend Monaco Recreational Vehicle plant in Indiana today, President Obama will announce exactly how $2.4 billion in Recovery Act grant money will be spent on advanced battery technologies and on infrastructure for more electric vehicles. This is a bit more than the $2 ...

REPORT: Fiat's fuel-saving Multi-air tech could come to Chrysler 3 months ago on Autoblog Green

Fiat's advanced Multiair technology could be an easy port to Chrysler's powertrains as the companies move ahead together. "It is low-invasive hardware" said Lucio Bernard of Fiat Powertrain Technologies, the division of the Italian automotive conglomerate tasked with developing the parts that make ...

REPORT: Dodge Circuit production hints, possibly coming in 2010 3 months ago on Autoblog Green

- With all of the recent upheaval at Chrysler, it's no surprise that the fate of the very cool Dodge Circuit is not exactly certain. In May, Chrysler assured everyone that the program was not DOA, and Chrylser ENVI president Lou Rhodes recently said something similar to Car and Driver. Rhodes ...

Two-Mode hybrid may be a one hit wonder for Daimler, BMW 3 months ago on Autoblog Green

What started as a very promising collaboration between General Motors, DaimlerChrysler and BMW is looking increasingly like a technological dead end. The two-mode hybrid system originally developed by General Motors' former Allison division for transit buses was to be adapted to light-duty ...

Chrysler pushing to dramatically cut GEM dealer network 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

Chrysler has made a big deal in the past about its long history selling GEM electric cars, and there are tens of thousands of them on the roads today. Of course, the EVs that Chrysler has been selling since 2000 (when DaimlerChrysler purchased GEM) are all NEVs - expensive, slow electric ...

REPORT: GM persuing Chrysler for repayment of Two-Mode Hybrid development 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

In a case that's sure to light up our own comments section along with untold numbers of message boards across the web, our friends at PickupTrucks.com are reporting that General Motors has filed documents in court in an attempt to get New Chrysler to honor its full pre-bankruptcy debt of $531,275 ...

Bosch looks for more business as Chrysler starts to build Fiats 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

Bosch has long been a major supplier of many different automotive components to Fiat, and the company is hoping to leverage that association with the new Chrysler. Bosch provides a higher proportion of the parts and systems that go into the Italian cars than they ever have had at Chrysler. However, ...

STUDY: The way to profits in Detroit? Make fuel efficient cars 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

According to a new study by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, the Detroit three automakers need to make major changes in their current corporate cultures if they truly want to reverse their fortunes, and that will likely require new leadership. Says Walter McManus, ...

IHS Global Insight report forecasts Dodge Hornet may come by way of Fiat 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

- So far, the path of the Dodge Hornet from concept to production has been a long and winding road leading to nowhere. We first saw the Hornet way back in 2006, and since then, Chrysler has been searching high and low for a partner to actually assemble the vehicle. First, Chinese automaker ...



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