SAN FRANCISCO — Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. and German engineering firm Bosch were hit Thursday with a new class action alleging that thousands of Dodge and Jeep diesel vehicles advertised as eco-friendly use the same kind of “defeat devices” that Volkswagen A.G. used to cheat U.S. emissions tests.
The suit, filed in San Francisco federal court by plaintiffs law firm Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, alleges that Fiat Chrysler’s “Ecodiesel” Dodge RAM 1500 produces up to 10 times as much nitrogen oxides as the standard set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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