Any hopes that Renault’s new 5 Turbo 3E electric pocket rocket could underpin the next-generation Fiat 500e may go unrealized for now, as Stellantis chairman John Elkann has once again denied rumors that the company is close to a merger with Renault. Speaking at the Financial Times’ Future of the Car Summit in London, UK – ironically alongside Renault CEO Luca de Meo, who was in the same panel discussion – Mr Elkann, according to a short report by Reuters, stated only that “we are not discussing any merger.”
