With the 2025 industry-wide fuel economy target of 54.5 mpg a decade away, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles CEO Sergio Marchionne believes "the house will make it" as far as all under the Chrysler Group umbrella are concerned, with a little help from hybridization of a number of models.
Automotive News reports Marchionne believes hybrids will "become a very large component" of the fleet going forward, stating that without them, meeting the mandate would be "impossible" for FCA's Pentastar offerings.
Part of that plan may come through Chrysler Group's new nine-speed automatic transmission, which will be used throughout the division's line of FWD vehicles, starting with the 2014 Jeep Cherokee and 2015 Chrysler 200; the latter, released to dealers earlier this month, provides up to 36 mpg on the highway with the transmission delivering power to the front wheels.
Licensed from ZF Friedrichshafen and assembled in FCA's Kokomo, Ind. plant, the nine-speed transmission will see additional construction at the formerly idle Tipton County, Ind. transmission factory. The $162 million refurbished plant will employ 850 by 2015, and will produce 800,000 transmissions annually at full capacity.
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