Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Ford has officially announced the second member of its turbocharged, gasoline direct-injection EcoBoost family, a 2.0-liter, The first engine in the EcoBoost line, a 3.5L, V6 engine ( earlier post ), is being applied in the 2010 Ford Taurus SHO and Flex and Lincoln MKS and MKT. 2010 Ford Fusion and Fusion Hybrid. Earlier post.)

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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

APRIL 26, 2009

Proposed by John Heywood and colleagues at MIT in 2005, the basic premise of E85 boosting is that ethanol (or other lower alcohols) suppresses knock due to the large evaporative cooling effect it has on the air-fuel mixture when injected directly into the cylinder, supplemented by ethanol’s inherent high octane number. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2009

billion for Ford Motor Company; $1.6 The Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program, first appropriated in the fall of 2008, will provide about $25 billion in loans to companies making cars and components in US factories that increase fuel economy at least 25% above 2005 fuel economy levels.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2009

According to the study, higher fuel economy standards would benefit the Detroit 3 automakers the most. Further, the report finds that the existing culture within the domestic auto companies systematically underestimates the value of fuel economy, which has crippled profitability. Fuel Economy. mpg) in fuel economy.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2009

First appropriated in the fall of 2008, the program provides loans to companies making cars and components in US factories that increase fuel economy at least 25% above 2005 fuel economy levels. billion for Ford Motor Company; $1.6 The preceding four conditional loan commitments are: $5.9 million to Fisker Automotive.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

Efforts to increase fuel economy and lower emissions show no signs of losing pace as the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a report revealing a fifth consecutive increase in new vehicle fuel efficiency with a corresponding decrease in average carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Hybrids are projected to have a 1.8

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Green Cars News

JUNE 23, 2009

The Ford Motor Company will benefit from $5.9billion, Nissan North America will pick up $1.6billion and Tesla Motors has been awarded $465million. Ford’s award will help finance a number of engineering advances to traditional internal combustion engines and electrified vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Based on an optimized, more compact fuel cell system presented by Mercedes-Benz in its F 600 HYGENIUS research vehicle in 2005, the 80 kW stack module in the B-Class F-CELL is around 40% smaller, but develops 30% more power output and cuts fuel consumption by 16% compared to the A-Class stack. million km (5.6 million miles). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2009

The onroad systems include three automobiles—(2005 Toyota Camry), SUV (2005 Chevrolet Trailblazer), and pickup (2005 Ford F-150) to represent the range in the US automobile fleet and critical performance—and two urban buses with off-peak and peak passenger loadings.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 31, 2023

Enterprise Car Share Although Enterprise is known as a car rental giant, they have expanded into cars sharing in 2005, later featuring a program rich in hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and electric cars. Ford SmartMobility/Chariot –Time for Spin? We covered the start-up here.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The oil price shocks of the 1970s led the Brazilian government to address the strain high prices were placing on its fragile economy. In 2005, their sales increased even further, accounting for approximately 54% of all new car sales. The Model T Ford, which debuted in 1908, was originally designed to operate on alcohol.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2015

Although the SAE World Congress has been running panel sessions on fuel cell vehicle commercialization since 2005, this year was the first in which three participating automakers—Toyota, Hyundai and Honda—had fuel cell vehicles that customers can buy now or within a year. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Ford Motor Company’s US hybrid sales for the first nine months of 2009 are 73% higher than the same period in 2008, fueled by the introduction of hybrid versions of the 2010 Ford Fusion and Mercury Milan, which went on sale in March 2009. Hybrid customers increasingly are considering Ford. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

billion to Ford Motor Company to transform factories across Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, and Ohio to produce more fuel efficient models. The loan for Ford Motor Company is the first to be finalized since the program was appropriated in the fall of 2008. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has closed on its loan offer of $5.9

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Plug In Partners

FEBRUARY 13, 2006

With the recent success of hybrid vehicles — more than 200,000 were sold in 2005 — Frank said the world is ready for what he thinks is the next logical step: plug-in hybrids. Frank spoke recently with Staff Writer Doug Beizer about plug-in hybrid technology and car fuel economy. Look at the first year of the Ford Escape hybrid.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

Westbrook, 2001 "Gasoline to Electric Conversion Manual: A Workshop Guide for High Schools", published by the Electric Vehicle Society of Canada, July 2005 "History of the Electric Automobile: Hybrid electric vehicles", by Ernest H. Deffeyes, 2005 "The Coming Oil Crisis", by Colin Campbell "Crossing the Rubicon", by Michael C.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2014

liter 32-valve V8 engine that, for the first time in a Lexus performance engine, uses the Atkinson cycle at cruising speeds for enhanced fuel economy and then switches to the Otto cycle at higher rpm to develop impressive performance levels. from Ford tested a modified 1.6L The RC F features an all-new 5.0-liter The Lexus 5.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2010

billion to Ford Motor Company. billion by Congress to support up to $25 billion in loans to companies making cars and components in US factories that increase fuel economy at least 25 percent above 2005 fuel economy levels. In September 2009, DOE signed its first loan agreement for $5.9 and Fisker Automotive. Tenneco Inc.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Ford Escape PHEV-40 around 2012. Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) Mazda Ford Partner was reported to be developing Series PHEV based on Mazda 5 MPV platform. Establishing dealer network.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 15, 2009

Ford Fiesta :Interesting English conversion. Groov-E-Skootz: electricscooter and bicycle retailer Midget Motors : Gizmo distributor SD Scooters : Electric Scooters SunValley Ford : They sold the Ford Ranger EV, now canceled. FordExpress : Svein Medhus has the first EV conversion in Norway. See what you missed.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Ford: The bulk of Ford’s green efforts have centred on flex-fuel vehicles with E85 versions of the Focus and Mondeo among its most successful models. In 2005, it launched the Ford Escape Hybrid – the first hybrid electric SUV. The company has enjoyed a 73 per cent increase in hybrid sales this year (see article ).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2015

Water is behind every single sector of our economy and our way of life. For 2005, most of the fresh-surface-water withdrawals—about 41%—were used in the thermo-electric power industry to cool electricity-generating equipment. It’s more valuable than oil because at the end of the day, there is no oil without water.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

High-Speed Rail Unlocks Intermodal Potential Texas Excess Ford Expands Hybrid Success to Electric Vehicles ► March (17) Carbon Capture and Storage: To Be or Not To Be? Review of Forestry Carbon Standards 2008 Ford Partners to Commercialize Electric Vehicles A New "Green" Deal.Direction for the economic re.

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EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

on a path to reducing emissions more than 40% below 2005 levels, per a Princeton University analysis of the measure’s impacts : expanded tax credits for EVs, batteries, solar panels and wind turbines. How the IRA will help tackle climate change. carbon sequestration (capture and storage, i.e.).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

But after interviewing Ford’s Nancy Gioia at the recent Detroit Auto show, I’m now unsure of both the timescales involved, or how much the power and auto companies are behind it as a fundamental concept. She is an avid runner and hiker, having grown up camping most summers in the Sierra Nevada.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2013

MPG: A Progress Report on Achievability ”—of the response of consumers and automakers as both begin to experience the effects of the newly adopted federal fuel economy standard. Those who say fuel economy is very important expect to get twelve miles more per gallon (mpg) from their next vehicle than those who say it is not important.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 18, 2022

First of all, President Biden has made a commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 55% in 2030 from the 2005 level. GM has made a commitment to 100% zero-emission vehicles by 2035, the same with Ford. Transportation is a key segment of the economy that contributes significantly to greenhouse gas emissions.

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