The Fiat 500e is not promoting nicely.
Stellantis paused manufacturing of the pint-sized electrical automotive on Sept. 12 noting sluggish demand. Reuters reported on Tuesday that manufacturing isn’t scheduled to renew till Nov. 1.
The unique manufacturing halt was solely slated to final 4 weeks with a restart date set for Oct. 11.
Stellantis, Fiat’s mother or father firm, slowed manufacturing operations on the Mirafiori plant in Turin, Italy in February noting it was a response to weak market demand for the electrical Fiat 500e. The slowdown was set to have the plant working at a single lowered eight-hour shift schedule. Beforehand the plant was operating two shifts.
2024 Fiat 500e
Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares will meet with the Italian parliamentary committee subsequent week to debate the automaker’s Italian manufacturing, in line with Reuters.
Reuters reported that regardless of the manufacturing cease Stellantis recommitted to its plan of investing 100 million euros ($111 million) into meeting of an improved battery pack and to provide a brand new 500 Hybrid mannequin in early 2026.
In September Italian officers advised the European Union that it wanted to evaluation the plan to finish gross sales of latest internal-combustion automobiles by 2035.
“The ban should be modified,” Italian power minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin stated. The federal government official known as the ban “absurd” and that it is being dictated by an “ideological imaginative and prescient.”
The 2024 Fiat 500e prices $34,095 and has 149 miles of EPA-rated vary. Inexperienced Automobile Stories stated it “charms metropolis drivers” after we drove it in April.
