IMO, this is Stellanis pulling the plug and moving towards EV.
The World Governments are fining the hell out of Ice and if you look in the other thread labeled
Poll: What year will mark the end of the All-ICE Hellcat? I
If you read this you will understand why the Ice Age is being fazed Out. You need Fred Flintstone vehicles to be able to meet the new World Government EPA guidelines.
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-04-30/pdf/2020-06967.pdf
Read the EPA mandates and it’s pretty radical for Dodge Vehicles as we know them today in a fleet. There is a 40 Mpg fleet proposed and final mandate by 2026. And Dodge is already supposed to be at 37 MPG fleet average Which is why FCA is presently paying Tesla Billions in Carbon Tax Credits.
Fiat Chrysler to spend $2 billion on CO2 fines and credits
MILAN — Fiat Chrysler Automobiles plans to spend 1.8 billion euros ($2 billion) in the next three years to buy regulatory credits to minimize the amount of emissions-related fines it will pay in Europe and the U.S.
The figure was revealed by Chief Financial Officer Richard Palmer on May 3 during a conference call with analysts to discuss FCA’s first-quarter results.
Including 600 million euros ($670 million) spent in 2018, FCA is poised to spend at least 2.4 billion euros ($2.7 billion) from 2018 through 2021 on emission fines and regulatory-credit purchases. Based on what Palmer told analysts on the conference call, this is the complete picture: