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PSA Peugeot Citroën has decided to develop a new family of 1-litre 3 cylinder petrol engines with power ranging from 70 to 100 CV. This engine will bring very significant reductions in CO2 consumptions and emissions and enable the Group to maintain and comfort its competitive advantage. The aim is to offer the market vehicles with CO2 emissions below 100g/km with no additional technology, then no supplementary cost.
Two manufacturing sites will be set up, one in France, the other in Eastern Europe. The first facility, with an annual capacity of 600,000 engines, will be operational as of 2011. It will be located in France on the PSA Peugeot Citroën site at Trémery and enable the creation of over 500 jobs. In 2007, the Trémery plant, located 15 km from Metz, manufactured 1.74 million engines. A second facility will be set up in Eastern Europe by 2012.
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