Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2015

While there are a number of efforts underway exploring the use of sustainable, natural rubber alternatives for use in tires ( earlier post , earlier post , earlier post ), cars use a great deal of rubber for non-tire applications as well; the Ford Fiesta, for example, contains about 3 kg of the material, excluding the tires.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2011

Mercedes-Benz will set up its own production of fuel cell stacks in Canada. By doing so, the company will bundle the development and production for one of the key components of fuel cell powered electric vehicles in Vancouver, British Columbia. Completion of the production facilities is scheduled for early 2012.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2019

Last month, they recorded the lowest monthly market share since September 2000. The biggest drops were posted by Mercedes, Renault, Peugeot, Ford and Land Rover. The Corsa is an older product but sold almost the same quantity of units as the Volkswagen Polo, whose latest generation has been in the market for about a year.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2011

Ford’s EcoLPi Falcon has gone on sale in Australia and is making its debut at the 2011 Australian International Motor Show in Melbourne. —Bob Graziano, President & CEO, Ford Australia. More than 100,000 LPG-powered Falcon vehicles have been produced since a dedicated LPG system was first introduced in mid-2000.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 8, 2023

Ford spent a lot of money and a lot of time on the development of the MN12 platform. An intentional move on the company’s part, the plan was to catch a more elevated customer than those persuaded by the Fox body trio: Ford Thunderbird, Mercury Cougar, and Lincoln Mark VII.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2014

For the first time since UCS began the Automaker Rankings report in 2000, all eight major automakers reduced their average greenhouse gas (GHG) and smog-forming emissions compared to their fleet averages from 1998, the model year examined in the first report. Climate Change Coal Emissions Fuel Efficiency'

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2009

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded Ford Motor Company and Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. Ford received the award for the fourth consecutive year based on the company’s actions to reduce the amount of energy used to manufacture vehicles and support its US operations.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 16, 2024

For the 1980s, GM created the X-Cars , Ford offered Fox sedans and American Motors had the Concord. I recall angrily futzing with video codecs in order to watch the file I'd laboriously downloaded of this spoof Aries commercial, circa 2000. It was (sometimes) hard to believe that this was a four-cylinder compact with front-wheel-drive.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 21, 2023

“It was basketball season,” Kelley explained to Kristen Gallerneaux , a curator at The Henry Ford (where the AAC pictured below resides ). The Henry Ford The 19-centimeter-diameter globe was indeed just a little smaller than a basketball. As for the AAC, production ceased in the early 1980s. In 2000, the Bose Corp.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 28, 2023

The company was in the midst of a big product shakeup as the Navigator joined the lineup, and the Town Car entered a new aerodynamic generation. & Ford claimed killing the unpopular Mark VIII freed up space to build two new vehicles. .& & Lincoln relented and branded the new sedan as LS.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

The new e-compressor debuting on the Ford vehicles improves the packaging by moving the inverter in-line with the motor. DENSO’s new inline electric compressor will make its global debut on Ford Motor Company’s Focus Electric, which began production this past December, with retail production ramping up the first half of the year.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Fain said that GM’s offer still lags behind Ford by preserving a two-tier wage structure and offering the weakest 401(k) contributions of all three companies — hence the UAW targeting Arlington.& In 2000, there were roughly 300,000 domestic auto workers. But that number had plummeted to just 140,000 by 2009.&

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

EVs are made to the same safety standards as all other production vehicles and are even safer in some cases, given there is no combustible fuel onboard. FYI, the safest EV trucks include Rivian R1T and Ford F-150 Lightning, according to the DOT’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the private Institute for Highway Safety.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2013

Ricardo Software has joined the Open Source Modelica Consortium ( OSMC ), demonstrating the company’s commitment to Modelica -based CAE and paving the way for launch of the forthcoming IGNITE software product. Modelica has been developed by the (non-profit) Modelica Association since 1996 and has been in use in industry since 2000.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2013

This report was written and compiled by Sandra Curtin and Jennifer Gangi of Fuel Cells 2000, an activity of Breakthrough Technologies Institute in Washington, DC. Daimler, Ford, and Nissan joined forces to develop a common fuel cell system and launch commercial FCEVs as early as 2017. 2012 Fuel Cell Technologies Market Report.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. The result was a demonstration project, a task organized by Alec Brooks , manager of ACP’s tzero production. Electric Car tzero 0-60 3.6

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 30, 2022

The Henry Ford Shortly after the cocktail party, the two men founded Unimation, the name a portmanteau of “universal” and “automation,” which Devol had coined when filing his patent. This video from The Henry Ford , in Dearborn, Mich., The new line of robots was just part of a bigger plan to ratchet up productivity. meters deep.

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Plug In India

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Tesla, VW, BYD, Ford and others have plans to build giant gigafactories. The most promising chemistry is Sodium-Ion, which will go into production as early as in 2023. The cycle life is crazy, as you can see here they claim more than a lakh cycles on their cell, while LFP cells have around 2000 cycles. It’s ridiculous.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

And I’m going to name some others like Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep, Harrison Ford, Meg Ryan like this. Well, all these people— with the exception of maybe Harrison Ford, but all these people really hit it in their 20s. And this is just an economic extension of that all the way back to production, essentially. Bateman: I think so.

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EV Central

APRIL 21, 2023

Though it won’t reach Australia for two years, Cupra unveiled the production-ready version of its new Tavascan EV in Berlin overnight. The factory in Anhui will begin production of the Tavascan next year. ” The next pure EV due from Cupra is the Urban Rebel hatchback, due to go into production in 2025. .

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

GRVC ] Cassie Blue navigates around furniture treated as obstacles in the atrium of the Ford Robotics Building at the University of Michigan. You'd think that high voltage powerlines would be the last thing you'd want a drone to futz with, but here we are. And then make me a bunch more sandwiches.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

Bio-n-butanol itself is a promising alternative fuel, produced conventionally from the fermentation of carbohydrates by Clostridium bacteria in a well-established process referred to as ABE fermentation, after its major chemical products: acetone, butanol and ethanol. 1 compression ratio). Engine speed was fixed at 1200 rpm.

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Charged EVs

JUNE 2, 2023

The concept for an all-EV reboot of the classic Type 2 Microbus appeared in 2016 and was confirmed for production in August 2017. Ford, Hyundai, Kia, and GM will all launch vehicles into that segment over the next couple of years. The 2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz electric minivan has been coming to North America for a long, long time.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 17, 2023

Ford, for example, recently cut 3,000 highly-paid salaried and contract workers as a down payment to help fund the transition to EVs. Ford CEO Jim Farley has said , employee cuts are necessary as Ford has “too many places in some places, no doubt about it. Ford is not alone. Mercedes-Benz says it will be investing €1.3

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Extending its operational range to high-load and low-load boundaries—an enabling factor for CAI to meet demand of production vehicle driving cycles—is a key challenge to full implementation of CAI combustion. Indicated fuel conversion efficiency in 2-stroke CAI operation at 2000 rpm. Earlier post , earlier post.).

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Plug In India

JANUARY 15, 2022

The good news that Jayasuriya shared was that production is being ramped up - and can touch more than 2,000 vehicles a month soon. But these two are not the go to market products. They are going to make investments in plastic moulds and aluminum pressure die casting moulds before production starts.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2013

—Christian Buhlmann, Volkswagen Product Communications. The A4 of model year 2000 with a 1.8 Ford Focus 2.0. It is important that it’s not two developments, but the same engine family, the same development.” In the A4 with a manual transmission, the 1.8 TFSI with 125 kW (170 hp) has a combined fuel consumption of 5.7l/100

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 20, 2009

Were told that the agreement includes nods of acceptance from the likes of Volkswagen, BMW, Ford, General Motors, Fiat, Toyota, Mitsubishi, Eon, Vattenfall, EDF, Npower, Endesa and Enel, and while theres no time frame for when itll be introduced, were pretty stoked to hear that at least something has been decided upon.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

By about 2000, BYD had become one of the worlds largest manufacturers of cellphone batteries. "When I first visited the BYD factory, I was shocked," says Daniel Kim, a Merrill Lynch technology analyst based in Hong Kong, who has been to the fully automated production lines in Japan and Korea. The company itself is frugal.

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Plugs and Cars

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

GM’s centennial celebration in mid-September saw the unveiling of the production version of the Chevrolet Volt, still scheduled for appearance in showrooms in November 2010. The good news about electricity as a transportation fuel for cars is finally breaking through to the mainstream. As if Americans weren’t confused enough already.

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Teslarati

JUNE 25, 2022

This week, the Goodwood Festival of Speed is happening in West Sussex, England, and many manufacturers are showing off production and concept electric vehicles. While headlining their ever-popular Mach E , Ford also revealed their “Pro Electric SuperVan.” Polestar –. The other EV shown by Lotus at Goodwood is their new Eletre SUV.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

"On some products, the costs, particularly in advanced technologies, are high," he said in a lengthy interview with Automotive News (free subscription required). based technology will actually achieve any economy in production. Wired Home Subscribe Sections Cars 2.0 It is simply the cost of doing business. Thats right.

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