AUBURN HILLS – Chrysler Group CEO Tom LaSorda will announce Tuesday in Washington D.C. that the Chrysler Group is committed to selling 250,000 flexible fuel vehicles in 2007 and about a half-million in 2008, including both retail and fleet sales, which translates into committing about 25 percent of total Chrysler Group production to flex fuel vehicles.
Starting in the 2007 model year the Chrysler Group will expand its flexible fuel offerings to the Jeep Grand Cherokee, Commander, and Dodge Dakota pickup truck.
The Dodge Caravan/Chrysler Town & Country minivans, Dodge Stratus, Chrysler Sebring, Dodge Durango and Dodge Ram pickup truck are already available as flex fuel vehicles.
Flex fuel vehicles are able to run on either gasoline or ethanol, also known as E85.
In his prepared remarks, LaSorda planned to tell the group, “Imagine, if all of those vehicles were operated on E85 instead of gasoline, it would save 4.5 billion gallons of petroleum per year-roughly one-third the amount of oil we import from Iraq each year.”
