Fiat is cleanest European manufacturer

Fiat is cleanest European manufacturer

Fiat has the lowest average CO2 emissions of any manufacturer on cars sold in Europe during the first half of 2009, with the figure dropping to 129.1g/km.

The new figure – corroborated by JATO Dynamics – means that Fiat is the only mainstream car brand to achieve the European average goal, of 130 g/km by 2015, five years early.

Other brands in the top ten include Toyota (132.9 g/km), Peugeot (134.5 g/km), Citroën (138.1 g/km), Renault (138.9 g/km), Ford (140.4 g/km), Opel (149.5 g/km), Volkswagen (152.5 g/km), Audi (162.6 g/km), and Mercedes (178.8 g/km).

Fiat says its gas-powered Natural Power cars, with an average of 115.8 g/km in CO2 emissions, have made a significant contribution to its low figure.

Fiat Group Automobiles, including Alfa Romeo and Abarth, is number one in the results posted by manufacturing groups (132.9 g/km), in front of Toyota, PSA, Renault and Hyundai.

“New engines are being introduced – like the innovative MultiAir technology on petrol engines, making them capable of guaranteeing up to 10 per cent lower CO2 emissions, and the new generation of Common Rail MultiJet diesel engines that will make their debut on the Punto Evo and that will be gradually adopted on all of our Group’s cars," said Lorenzo Sistino, CEO of Fiat Automobiles.

“New technologies, like Start&Stop, introduced on the Fiat 500, is now standard on all Punto Evo Euro 5 engines. Start&Stop can cut CO2 emissions in the urban cycle by as much as 12 per cent.

“Other applications such as eco:Drive – our innovative software programme – allows drivers to analyse personal driving styles so as to optimise consumption and emissions. Sixty thousand people have downloaded it in less than a year since its launch, and 25,000 are using it daily.”

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