PSA And Fiat Pondering EV Platform Hookup

ccording to Bloomberg, two big car manufacturers – the PSA Group and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) are in preliminary talks about limited cooperation (at least initially).

The main topic is a partnership, which could result in a new joint “super platform”. Because the market shifts towards electrification, the new platform would, of course, include electric cars.

Other areas of interest would be investment-intense autonomous driving technologies.

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TomM - 4/1/2019 1:03:01 PM

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Again - the title of this Item fails to accurately reflect the underlying information.

It is that the two are looking to share a Platform - not specifically for EVs - but for a number of Applications.

Unless the platform is already well into planning - it is already becoming too late to get into the fray for the initial HOPED competitive sales of Electric cars. By the time this could produce fruit - it is likely that there will be dozens of EVs from all types of Manufacturers - some of which will even have a good reputation for building reliable vehicles - which certainly does not include FCA. I cannot imagine ANYONE deliberately WAITING to see what FCA is going to come up with in this case.

ricks0me - 4/1/2019 4:52:12 PM

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And you thought Tesla had engine / battery fire problems. This will look like a 1 alarmer compared to PSA & FCA

MDarringer - 4/1/2019 6:49:17 PM

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That's just what Chrysler needs. The idiot French pulling the strings of the idiots in Italy, pulling the strings of the hostage (that makes all the money) in Detroit.

MDarringer - 4/1/2019 8:31:36 PM

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Arguably Peugeots are better than Fiats, so why not sell Peugeots in Chrysler dealers?