I can also see a Nissan Leaf based Panda EV.
Unfortunately I can't.
The idea of the merger is to hit targets for cleaner vehicles, they need to hit an average of 95g CO2 per kilometer for their whole fleet by 2021.
Fiat are a long way behind making this and will face billions of euros fines when they fail.
These fines are on a sliding scale, so the closer to 95g you get, the lower the fine.
The answer they've come up with is to merge companies.
If a car company merges with another to form a new company, the "clean" models the other company sell now count against all the products in the merged companies line ups.
Fiat teamed up Tesla so it can "add" all their vehicles to the company's fleet, but you will never see a Tesla with a Fiat badge on it. The owning companies merge not the brands.
Fiat, Abarth, Renault, Dacia, Tesla, Jeep, Chrysler etc will be brands all under one company and as they have already stated they have no plans to close factories, it's a cert Renault will continue to sell the Zoe and Flatulence, Nissan the Leaf and Fiat the petrol Panda for a good while yet.
In time they might co develop new technology that all the brands might use, but that's a long way off, the plan at the moment it to sell as many vehicles as possible from a fleet with an average CO2 close to 95g per km as possible for least cost/effort.
But, if the Panda was likely to change, you'd imagine it's utilitarian style and budget status might lend it's self more to the Dacia Sandero than anything else.
The Sandero ranges from 97g to 123g of CO2
The Panda 118g to 129g of CO2.
You can see which model might nudge the CO2 level up by couple of bill fine!
