Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 5, 2013
Fort Wayne Assembly has used landfill gas since 2002. The excess gas flare that normally escapes into the air is now redirected into the facility to create electricity energy for manufacturing. When the electric-generation project is completed, 54% of Orion’s energy will come from renewable landfill gas.
The Truth About Cars
MARCH 18, 2024
Ford launched the Escape Hybrid as a 2005 model (its Mercury Mariner and Mazda Tribute siblings showed up a bit later), so The General had some catching up to do in the green-car department. You'll find its derivatives underpinning everything from the Suzuki XL7 to the Wuling Almaz , and it all began with the 2002 Vue.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 14, 2012
The development work began to accelerate slowly with the evolution of the Escape Hybrid—the first production hybrid vehicle from a US-based automaker—that was designed and developed in the early 2000s. Still, by 2002 Ford only had approximately 30 hybrid patents.
Cars That Think
OCTOBER 3, 2023
With a contraption that would have earned him kudos from MacGyver, Schneider managed to track the transit of an exoplanet in the binary star system HD 189733, a type of observation that had escaped even professional astronomers until 2002. If I had a suitably sensitive seismometer, though, I’d be able to measure them.”
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 17, 2013
Its efforts to incorporate alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs) into its fleet began in 2002 with an initial purchase of hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), mainly the Toyota Prius and Ford Escape hybrid. Houston already has the third-largest municipal hybrid fleet in the country.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 22, 2010
From 1994 to 2002, Purcell led the GM Advanced Technology Vehicles Group (GM ATV). Boston Power Swing 12 kWh Escape PHEV Demonstrator. In 2009, Boston-Power developed a Ford Escape plug-in demonstrator equipped with a 12 kWh pack. UL, UN, and ROHS certifications. Number of cells: 792 (88s9p). Number of modules: 11.
Green Cars News
OCTOBER 16, 2009
The importance of the emerging automotive market in China has not escaped Europe’s leading car manufacturers, with Volkswagen planning to expand its operations in the country. It first passed the one million vehicle marker in 1998 and took another four years to reach two million vehicles in 2002.
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