Ram HD Trucks With Cummins Diesel Engines Are Being Sued
Sometimes big trucks can lead to big problems. Ram HD trucks might be in trouble because they’re facing a new lawsuit. Allegedly, models equipped with the Cummins diesel engine have fraudulent diesel emission claims and defeat devices.
Ram HD trucks face a lawsuit due to fraudulent emissions
Arizona is suing FCA and Cummins because the Ram HD trucks with Cummins engines reportedly have fraudulent emissions.
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes claims the truck was falsely advertised to over 23,600 buyers in the state.
The alleged fraud led to people purchasing more expensive diesel trucks because they were advertised as super clean and wouldn’t have a profound negative environmental impact.
The trucks were about $9,000 to $12,000 more expensive than similarly equipped trucks with gas-powered engines.
Mayes explained that by portraying the trucks as eco-friendly while secretly violating the emission standards, FCA and Cummins had betrayed Arizonan’s trucks and violated the state’s consumer protection laws.
This lawsuit targets illegal defeat devices that falsely report lower nitrogen oxide (NOx) levels under EPA emissions testing conditions than the diesel-powered Ram 2500 and 3500 trucks released under normal operation.
Allegedly, FCA knowingly placed higher-emitting trucks with these defeat devices in Arizona. The case is specific to 2013 – 2019 Ram 2500 and 3500 trucks with the 6.7-liter Cummins turbo-diesel engine.
Ram HD trucks aren’t alone. In August 2022, a federal judge sentenced Stellantis North America to pay $300 million in fines and forfeiture of carbon credits for cheating government emissions testing on Ram 1500 trucks and Jeep Grand Cherokee models with the EcoDiesel engine.
In December 2024, Cummins paid a massive $1.675 fine to settle claims of using defective devices in roughly one million heavy-duty trucks between 2013 and 2023. That was the largest penalty levied against a corporation by the Clean Air Act.
The vehicles were recalled to comply with the Clan Air Act, but the FCA and Cummins failed to compensate owners and lessees of the vehicles that were sold as ‘super clean’ eco-friendly options.
Mayes is fighting for injunctive relief, restitution, disgorgement, civil penalties, fees, and costs on behalf of the 24,000 Ram HD truck owners in Arizona.
Stay tuned for updates!
