Chrysler Group LLC has raised the bar on sustainable manufacturing by replacing soy with recycled foam waste material in the 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee seat manufacturing process. It's an industry first, and the company estimates the process will save some 180,000 pounds of foam from reaching landfills each year.

One mpg doesn’t sound like a whole lot on its own. But when you consider a 324-truck fleet traveling hundreds of thousands of miles every year, one mpg improvement per truck adds up – in both fuel and environmental costs.

Chrysler Group LLC is considering those costs closely as it works to replace its entire Transport fleet trucks. The trucks deliver parts from suppliers—mostly from the company’s stamping and powertrain plants, but also from some outside suppliers—to Manufacturing’s assembly plants and Mopar®’s parts distribution centers. The group operates terminals in Detroit, Toledo, Ohio, and Windsor, Ontario.
 

The savings to...

The Fiat 500 was a guest on the Live With Regis and Kelly in New York last week.  It clearly wowed the morning talk show hosts as well as the audience, who were geared up for the public opening of the New York International Auto Show. In the above video, Car and Driver’s Alan Taylor provides a brief description of the Fiat 500, which is slated to go on sale in December of this year in North America. Please note that in fact Chrysler Group LLC hasn’t released any specifications on the...