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Ford to Introduce 9 New or Upgraded Engines and Six New Transmissions in North America This Year

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By the end of 2010, nearly all of Ford’s North American engines will have been upgraded or replaced since 2008, according to Barb Samardzich, Ford vice president, Powertrain Engineering. liter Shelby GT 500 V-8. Earlier post.) Engines Transmissions. liter Fiesta I-4. liter Focus DI I-4. liter Ecoboost I-4. liter F-150 EcoBoost V-6.

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GadgetGeekBlog.com " Blog Archive " 1,000hp Electric Car? - Rumors of the New Shelby Aero EV

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Rumors of the New Shelby Aero EV Foxit’s eSlick Reader Mac Book Mini LG GD910 3G Watch Advertisement Recent Comments moshbrian on Wear Ur World with the New Sixth Sense That is freakin awesome weather it is for the head. Rumors of the New Shelby Aero EV You got my attention now. » moshbrian on 1,000hp Electric Car?

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Flat Lenses Made of Nanostructures Transform Tiny Cameras and Projectors

Cars That Think

Shelby and colleagues at the University of California, San Diego , demonstrated a negative refractive index metamaterial in the microwave region. When Apple introduced the iPhone in 2008, no one could have predicted that it would spawn companies like Uber. That year, Richard A.

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2010 Aptera 2e First Drive and Video on Inside Line

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Change Is Good Punch and the PP4 prototype represent an impressive midpoint in development, but Reichenbach (formerly head engineer for the Ford GT and Shelby 350 GT programs at Ford) says that only about 30 percent of what we see in PP4 will be in the final production version. Thats good news.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. First Escape PHEV delivered to SCE Nov 2007; 20 in 2008-2009. Beginning in 2005, we excerpted individual statements of intentions by carmakers, but by the start of 2008, the number of comments became too numerous for us to track. Batteries not ready.

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