Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2012

Ford is investing $1.3-billion billion in its Hermosillo (Mexico) Stamping and Assembly Plant for the production of Ford Fusion and Lincoln MKZ lineups. —Mark Fields, Ford president of The Americas. Ford’s latest investment is in addition to $3 billion invested in Mexico during the past decade.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 2, 2012

The Ford Escape Hybrid occupies a special place in green-car history. A pet project of then-CEO Bill Ford, the Escape Hybrid was an immediate hit and remained popular through. It was the first hybrid built in the U.S., the first one from a U.S. carmaker, and the first hybrid crossover utility.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Ford Fusion Hybrid automated research vehicle with four LiDAR sensors. Ford, in conjunction with the University of Michigan and State Farm, unveiled a Ford Fusion Hybrid automated research vehicle that will be used to make progress on future autonomous driving and other advanced technologies. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2016

Ford is tripling its fleet of fully autonomous Ford Fusion Hybrid test vehicles—making it the largest in the automotive industry, according to the company—and will use a new-generation sensor technology as the company further accelerates its autonomous vehicle development plans. Advances in sensing, software and hardware.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2017

Ford detailed seven of the 13 new global electrified vehicles it plans to introduce in the next five years, including hybrid versions of the iconic F-150 pickup and Mustang in the US, a plug-in hybrid (PHEV) Transit Custom van in Europe and a fully electric SUV with an expected range of at least 300 miles (483 km) for customers globally.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2016

Ford recorded 115,228 SUV US sales at retail through the first two months of 2016, making for the best-yet calendar year start for Ford SUVs (Escape, Edge, Flex, Explorer, Police Interceptor Utility, Expedition) ever, highlighted by a best-ever February. Sales of Ford’s utilities for January and February 2016 were up 16.1%

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2014

Ford Lightweight Concept. Ford Motor Company unveiled its Lightweight Concept vehicle, which uses advanced materials to explore future weight-reduction solutions that could improve performance and fuel efficiency while reducing CO 2 emissions. —Raj Nair, Ford group vice president, Global Product Development.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2016

a global leader in LiDAR (Light, Detection and Ranging) technology, announced the completion of a combined $150 million investment from co-investors Ford Motor Company and China’s leading search engine company Baidu, Inc. —Raj Nair, Ford Executive Vice President, Product Development and Chief Technical Officer.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 30, 2013

A lot has changed in those ten years, and the rise of Ford as a real force in the hybrid markets is one of the biggest changes. 2004 saw the launch of its very first hybrid, the 2005 Escape Hybrid, and the maker''s cars have gone from strength to strength ever since. Ten years ago, your choice of hybrid vehicles was pretty limited.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

Ford swept the North American Car and Truck of the Year awards today at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), winning with the 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid and the 2010 Ford Transit Connect, respectively. It also is the second hybrid win for Ford—the most hybrid wins for any automaker.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2010

Ford Motor Company and the City of Seattle are working together to help prepare the city for the operation of electric vehicles. Continued tax incentives as well as an easy charging station permitting process are both considered keys to electric vehicle acceptance in Seattle and across the country.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2009

Ford Motor Company has produced its 100,000th hybrid SUV and used the milestone to restate its commitment to ramping up production of hybrid vehicles this year. Ford began sales the Ford Escape hybrid in 2004, followed by the Mariner Hybrid in 2005.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Hagerty’s 2024 list includes: ·& & & & & 1997-2002 Plymouth Prowler ·& & & & & 1964-1966 Ford Thunderbird ·& & & & & 1981-1986 Jeep CJ-8 Scrambler ·& & & & & 1965-1970 Chevrolet Impala SS ·& & & & & 2000-2005 Jaguar XKR ·& & & & & (..)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Prabhakar Patil, former CEO, LG Chem Power, and Chief Engineer of Hybrid Technologies, Ford Motor Company. Prior to joining LGCPI in 2005, Dr. Patil spent 27 years of his professional career at Ford Motor Company in various engineering and management positions. Rita Lane, former Vice President of Operations, Apple Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2010

Ford Motor Company said it will. end production of Mercury vehicles in the fourth quarter of this year to fully devote its financial, product development, production and marketing, sales and service resources toward further growing its core Ford brand while enhancing the Lincoln brand. in 2005 to 6.3%

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2014

In the study, the Ford team derived regional CO 2 targets for new LDVs while still providing an integrated view of the global LDV fleet—a perspective critical to the planning needs for global automotive firms. Their paper is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. The SMP model calculates 2000?2050

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 5, 2012

The new 2013 Ford Fusion is stunning on the street; it may well be the best-looking mid-size sedan on the market. The first Fusion in 2005 started to re-establish Ford's presence in mid-size sedans, and sales.

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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 Reports

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

When Ford launched the Transit Connect small commercial van as a 2010 model, it was a new kind of vehicle. Its closest counterpart was the Chevy Astro van, discontinued in 2005. And by 2010, the Transit Connect had been in production for almost a decade in Europe and elsewhere.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

People might be bored reading about the Prius but a review on four Priuses (2004, 2005, two 2006s) that my family owns that ran a total of 913k km (570k miles) should be interesting, right? The fourth one, a 2005, I bought for myself last year with 222k km (128k miles) with a full service history. My 2005 burns about 0.3-0.4

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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

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

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.

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Baua Electric

MAY 1, 2023

He informed Automobile Information in 2013 that he joined Galpin Ford on the urging of a pal and in the long run wound up staying longer than his pal. I vowed to make it the most profitable Ford store in America, and we did. 21, 1930, in South Gate, Calif., Boeckmann didn’t to start with plan to develop into a automobile broker.

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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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Teslarati

JUNE 23, 2021

Since 2005, Cars.com has compiled a list qualifying all vehicles built and bought in the U.S. This makes the Model Y a no-brainer for this list, only being bested by the Model 3 and the Ford Mustang. manufacturing workforce. manufacturing workforce. automotive market.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

The drag cars are an offshoot of the kits that ROUSH Performance uses to convert gasoline-powered Ford pickups and vans to run on propane. The first car being developed is a 2005 ROUSH Stage 3 Mustang which will be driven by Donnie Bowles and expected to be testing in mid-November.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Based on an optimized, more compact fuel cell system presented by Mercedes-Benz in its F 600 HYGENIUS research vehicle in 2005 ( earlier post ), 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 fuel cell stack. Click to enlarge.

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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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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

The report confirms that average CO 2 emissions have decreased and fuel economy has increased each year beginning in 2005. This positive trend beginning in 2005 reverses a long period of increasing CO 2 emissions and decreasing fuel economy from 1987 through 2004, and returns CO 2 emissions and fuel economy to levels of the early 1980s.

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Baua Electric

JULY 28, 2023

Ford’s head of passenger automobile category in Europe, Martin Sander, lately instructed Car Information Europe that he used to be no longer fearful about pageant from China in Europe as Ford strikes to promoting best electrical cars in Europe. “I MG’s greatest Eu marketplace, is one possibility, Wang showed.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2009

The vehicle utilizes Azure Dynamics’ hybrid electric drive train on the Ford E-450 chassis. Mounting kits were developed for most models of GM, Ford and Chrysler vehicles. The original founders left in 2002 and from 2002 to 2005, Aura had a number of new management teams.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2009

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) fined Sunrise Ford, a car dealership with outlets in North Hollywood and Fontana, $175,000 last month for illegally modifying 2005 through 2007 model year light- and medium-duty vehicles with an aftermarket device before the vehicles were sold. ARB Chairman Mary D.

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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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Baua Electric

JANUARY 28, 2024

Also see: Maruti Gypsy Electric review: Future-proofing an icon Maruti Swift | 2005-present The hot-looking Swift was instrumental in changing the way buyers perceived Maruti Suzuki in India. Before its arrival in 2005, Maruti was associated with practicality and fuel efficiency, and generally perceived as a car for conservative buyers.

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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 Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2012

The Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers’ Association (CVMA), Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, and Navistar all supported the announcement and the full alignment of the Canadian regulations with the US national regulations for new on-road heavy-duty vehicle and engine greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for 2014 and later model years.

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