The Windsor-built plug-in hybrid Chrysler Pacifica has earned top marks in efficiency testing by the US Environmental Protection Agency.
It has a combined score of 84 miles per gallon using both the electric and gasoline.
FCA Media Relations Manager Eric Mayne says that's even better than the numbers Chrysler came up with when it performed the identical tests.
Mayne says the company expects the fuel efficiency will attract buyers since fuel efficiency is at or near the top of buyer's shopping list.
He says the full range of the vehicle is amazing going 33 miles on electric power alone (better than FCA's 30 mile estimate) and having a total range of 566 miles.
Mayne says the manufacturing of the plug-in hybrid at the Windsor Assembly Plant has involved a great collaboration with the employees: "when you're producing a vehicle with revolutionary technology like that, it requires considerable co-ordination and there's been great teamwork exhibited in this case"
The EPA also issues a rating for the combined fuel efficiency and pollution numbers called the Green Energy Guide, and the Pacifica got a score of 10...the highest available.
Mayne says when FCA tested the hybrid Pacifica, they got a rating of 80 miles per gallon.
A conversion to the Canadian standard of litres per 100 km has not been completed yet.
The total range of the Pacifica Hybrid is 910 kilometres and it will go 53 kilometres on battery power alone.