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NOVEMBER 15, 2013

The Coca-Cola Company and Ford Motor Company are collaborating on the first interior fabric made from the same renewable material used to produce Coca-Cola’s PlantBottle Technology packaging. The Ford Fusion Energi research vehicle will be on display later this month at the Los Angeles Auto Show.

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AUGUST 26, 2010

Mazda Motor Corporation and Ford Motor Company’s joint venture, AutoAlliance (Thailand) Co. AAT), will invest US$350 million in its pickup truck plant to support the production of Mazda and Ford’s next generation pickup trucks. The investment will enable production of the new compact pickups to commence in mid-2011.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2015

Ford announced the official production start of the new twin-scroll 2.0-liter liter EcoBoost engine is available in the all-new Ford Edge, launching in first quarter of 2015. liter EcoBoost engine is available in the all-new Ford Edge, launching in first quarter of 2015. liter EcoBoost engine for Ford of Europe-built vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2013

Ford has reduced the average amount of water used to make each of its vehicles by 8.5% Since 2000, Ford has reduced the amount of water used around the world from 64 million cubic meters to 24 million cubic meters—a reduction of about 10.6 billion gallons, or about 62%.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2013

Ford Motor Company officially launched the new 1.5-liter The new engine will be first introduced in China in the all-new Ford Mondeo, making its public debut later this month at Auto Shanghai 2013 ( earlier post ), with applications following in the Fusion sedan in North America this year, and later the new Mondeo in Europe.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Ford is introducing a seven-passenger people mover expected to break the 30 mpg-plus highway barrier. The all-new Transit Connect Wagon builds on the foundation of the current Transit Connect compact van, introduced in North America in 2009. liter four-cylinder engine and an optional 1.6-liter l/100 km) on the highway.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Production figures for Ford’s EcoBoost engines has hit the two million mark. Ford has been building the frugal petrol units since 2009 and now produces them at a rate of more than 100,000 every month, up from 65,000 a month in 2012. The two-millionth EcoBoost engine – a four pot 2-litre unit – we[.].

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2012

In an address at the 2012 Mackinac Policy Conference, Ford Motor Company Executive Chairman Bill Ford said that “ Michigan must become the Silicon Valley of the mobility revolution ” and outlined key public policy areas to help improve the state’s competitiveness and ensure that the state realizes the full benefit of that impending revolution.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Ford plans to cut the amount of water used to make each vehicle 30% globally by 2015, compared with the amount of water used per vehicle in 2009. If Ford meets the 30% goal, the amount of water used to make a vehicle will have dropped from 9.5 Between 2000 and 2010, Ford reduced its global water use by 62%, or 10.5

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NOVEMBER 27, 2010

Ford is opening 66 new dealerships in China by the end of the year. Ford will have added 100 new dealerships in China in 2010, bringing its total number of outlets here to 340. It’s all about growth—for Ford, for our partners and most importantly, growth for our customers.

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JUNE 16, 2012

Ford has reduced the amount of energy required to produce each vehicle in its manufacturing facilities by 22% in the last six years. At the same plant, a new 500-kilowatt solar panel system has been installed to generate renewable energy for production of Ford vehicles like Focus and Focus Electric.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

Ford India’s integrated manufacturing plant near Chennai is poised to begin volume production of a soon-to-be-introduced global small car after a $500-million transformation to double the plant’s capacity and become a strategic production hub for Ford Motor Company. With a capacity of 250,000 engines a year, it is due on line in 2010.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 5, 2010

Ford is starting EV trials in Germany. For more details, follow the link … Ford Plans to Start Electric-Car Tests in Germany Next Month. “Ford Motor Co. The drivers will include researchers and customers selected by Ford, Dudenhoeffer said today in a telephone interview. 28 (Bloomberg) — Ford Motor Co.

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JANUARY 11, 2010

Ford Motor Company will invest an additional $450 million in its electric vehicle plan, paving the way to build its next-generation hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicle vehicles in Michigan beginning in 2012. Ford Executive Chairman Bill Ford made the announcement at the end of the first day of the media preview of the Detroit Auto Show.

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MARCH 22, 2009

and Altech-Eco have signed an exclusive agreement to bring EPA-certified dedicated and bi-fuel (gasoline/compressed natural gas) retrofitted Ford Focus vehicles (MY 2008 and 2009) to Florida consumers. The bi-fuel CNG Ford Focus has the ability to run on CNG or gasoline and comes with a manufacturer-rated CNG cylinder of 9.1

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2010

Currently (2010), electrified products (only hybrids at this point) represent 1% of Ford’s global fleet. Ford anticipates that hybrids will represent about 70% of the 2020 numbers, with plug-in hybrids contributing 20-25% and battery-electric vehicles the remainder, she said. Nancy Gioia. With 12 different top hats (e.g., Nancy Gioia.

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MARCH 6, 2009

Ford Motor Company officially launched the new Ford Fiesta into the China market on the southern resort island of Hainan. The sedan and the five-door Fiesta hatchback are both built at the Changan Ford Mazda Automobile Company manufacturing facility in Nanjing.

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Charged EVs

MAY 7, 2024

This reporter recalls a presentation from the long-vanished British firm Modec, a startup making light delivery vans, which said even back in 2009 that fleet managers would see a lifetime payback on what were then very expensive BEV cargo vans. Ford announced its E-Transit only in November 2020, and deliveries started in February 2022.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Ford Motor Company is investing $155 million at its Cleveland operations to build a new more fuel-efficient V-6 engine for the 2011 Mustang. The investment and jobs at Ford’s Cleveland Engine Plant No. Opened in 1951 as Ford’s first engine plant in Ohio, the facility has produced more than 35 million engines.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

Ford Motor Company and Smith Electric Vehicles US (SEV US) have mutually agreed to terminate the development project of an electric car-derived van based on Transit Connect. Ford and Azure. The vehicle will be badged with both the Ford Blue Oval and Azure’s Force Drive logo. Battery electric Ford Focus passenger car in 2011.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

14, thus making more people aware of the accelerating transition to electric vehicles by automakers and the billions of dollars companies are investing in building battery plants. GM CEO Mary Barra, Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares, Chairman John Elkann, and Ford Executive Chairman Bill Ford Jr. Although Biden and the U.S.

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MAY 14, 2009

will spend about ¥30 billion (US$314 million) to build an automotive lithium-ion battery plant. The plan is to increase annual production by about 150% to 30 million units (150,000 cars) in fiscal 2009 from 12 million units (60,000 cars) in fiscal 2008. 7267) and vehicles of Ford Motor Co. Sanyo Electric Co.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 13, 2024

The original Sable was a Mercurized Ford Taurus , sold from the 1986 through 2005 model years. As it turned out, Mercury was gone after 2011 , despite the best efforts of Jill Wagner , and the revived Sable existed for just the 2008 and 2009 model years before being terminated. The Freestyle became the Taurus X.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 14, 2023

Over the weekend, your author happened upon a rural Ford dealership seemingly frozen in time, still using signage from past decades and proudly eschewing whatever cold corporate design is currently being foisted upon dealer principals by The Suits in Dearborn. It was neat to see a store embrace its heritage.

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Baua Electric

JULY 17, 2023

. “Led by the all-new Z71, the 2024 Traverse builds on the success of its predecessor and will undoubtedly enable us to be in more customer driveways.” litre turbocharged four-cylinder engine, which GM estimates will build 315 hp and 317 pound-feet of torque, mated to an eight-speed computerized transmission.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2010

The combined capacity of the 10 largest players Chinese automakers is expected to jump from around 12 million units in 2009 to 21 million or so in 2012. SAIC plans a 30% increase over 2009 capacity by 2012. plans to build a new plant to be jointly operated with Ford. In 2009, new car sales in China surged 46% to 13.64

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Baua Electric

MAY 7, 2024

This reporter recalls a presentation from the long-vanished British firm Modec, a startup making light delivery vans, which said even back in 2009 that fleet managers would see a lifetime payback on what were then very expensive BEV cargo vans. Ford announced its E-Transit only in November 2020, and deliveries started in February 2022.

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Electric Cars are for Girls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

BTW, it looks like Ford and Chrysler haven't actually forgotten how to build electric cars after all, because they've been quietly building a small fleet of electric postal vans for California since the beginning of 2009. Looks like it's a fiscally smart move, too, which the Post Office dearly needs.

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Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

But very few consumers will come up with BrightDrop , the name GM has given to a new unit that builds electric commercial vehicles: full-size vans and even electric cargo containers. Just like, say, Ford—which was then in the process of killing Mercury, to leave it with only Ford and Lincoln. Photo courtesy of FedEx.

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Baua Electric

JULY 17, 2023

. “Led by the all-new Z71, the 2024 Traverse builds on the success of its predecessor and will undoubtedly enable us to be in more customer driveways.” liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine, which GM estimates will build 315 hp and 317 pound-feet of torque, mated to an eight-speed computerized transmission.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2009

Ford researchers at Ford’s European Research Centre in Aachen, Germany are investigating an innovative, new wood-plastic compound (WPC—also known as liquid wood. The new material is being assessed in a three-year project which started in May 2009. The new liquid wood material is derived from a rubber compounding process.

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JULY 15, 2014

In 2009, BMW selected SB Limotive, a joint venture between Bosch and Samsung SDI, as the battery supplier for its “MegaCity” vehicle—what would become the BMW i3 and then the i line. BMW builds the complete high-voltage battery packs for the BMW i3, BMW i8 and other future hybrid vehicles on an assembly line at BMW Plant Dingolfing.

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JULY 19, 2011

At the “Forward with Ford” event held in June—a conference exploring the linkage of Ford vehicles and technologies to global consumer trends—the company showcased its work on vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications with a focus on crash avoidance. These protocols build on the established IEEE 802.11

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OCTOBER 1, 2017

For the first time since 2009, gasoline vehicles have overtaken diesel to become the most sold car type in the EU-15. The second will build on this and add more power and a more dynamic driving character. Gasoline vehicles now account for 48.5% of new passenger car sales, up from 45.8%

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

Mercedes-Benz began limited production of the B-Class F-Cell in 2009. In 2013, Daimler, Ford and Nissan signed a three-way agreement for the joint development of a common fuel cell system to speed up availability of zero-emission technology and significantly reduce investment costs. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2010

Royal Dutch Shell plc is expanding its portfolio in North America tight gas (natural gas produced from tight, low permeability formations) with new positions in high potential US shale gas acreage in the Marcellus shale and Eagle Ford plays. These undeveloped acreage positions are in the liquids-rich window of the Eagle Ford play.

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Electric Cars are for Girls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

BTW, it looks like Ford and Chrysler haven't actually forgotten how to build electric cars after all, because they've been quietly building a small fleet of electric postal vans for California since the beginning of 2009. Looks like it's a fiscally smart move, too, which the Post Office dearly needs.

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