Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Ford Motor plans to invest RMB 11.4 The investment will allow Ford significantly to build up its research and development capabilities in the country—especially at its Nanjing Research and Engineering Center (REC)—and will help Ford create more world-class vehicles in China, for China. billion (US$1.8

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2015

In the opening keynote at Ford’s annual trends conference, 2015 Further With Ford, CEO Mark Fields announced the next phase of the company’s Smart Mobility plan, originally announced in January this year at CES ( earlier post ). Ford CEO Mark Fields at 2015 Further with Ford. Click to enlarge.

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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. Affordability. Nancy Gioia. Access to the fuel.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has released One Million Electric Vehicles by 2015 , a short status report on advances in deployment and progress to date in meeting President Obama’s goal of putting one million plug-in electric vehicles (PEV) on the road by 2015. Estimated US supply of PEVs from 2011-2015. Ford Focus EV.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2015

Ford has opened its new Research and Innovation Center Palo Alto, growing its global research team and accelerating the company’s work in connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, customer experience and big data. At Ford, we view ourselves as both a mobility and an auto company, as we drive innovation in every part of our business.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2015

The decision means that FCA joins General Motors and Ford in covering E15 in its warranty statements; GM started covering E15 with its MY 2012 vehicles, while Ford joined a year later with its MY 2013 vehicles. More than 12% of the vehicles sold so far in the United States in 2015 have been FCA vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

A new study sponsored by Indiana University concludes that President Obama’s vision of one million plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) on US roads by 2015 will require concentrated efforts action from all stakeholders— the auto industry, federal government, the scientific community, and consumers—to be realized. —John D.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 20, 2023

Station wagons were falling out of favor in a hurry with American car shoppers as the 1990s progressed, especially after the 1991 Ford Explorer and 1993 Jeep Grand Cherokee hit showrooms and put the hammer down on the truckification of our roads. If you require a properly big station wagon with Mitsubishi badges, though, this is the one.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2019

The brand’s electrified model range has been continually expanded in the following years: e-Golf and Golf GTE followed in 2014, the Passat GTE and Passat Variant GTE in 2015. electric cars in 2025 shows that people want climate-friendly individual mobility—and we are making it affordable for millions of people.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2016

The study, published in Science of the Total Environment , found highly variable levels of ambient BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethyl benzene, and xylene compounds) in and around fracking gas drilling sites in the Eagle Ford shale region in South Texas. Collectively, 12,821 data points were taken.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2013

In January, Daimler AG, Ford Motor Company and Nissan Motor Co., Honda and GM are eager to accelerate the market penetration of this ultimate clean mobility technology, and I am excited to form this collaboration to fuse our leading fuel cell technologies and create an advanced system that will be both more capable and more affordable.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2017

Ford taps Apple for Chief Brand Officer. Ford has hired Musa Tariq as vice president and chief brand officer as part of its expansion to an auto and a mobility company. Tariq, elected a Ford Motor Company officer, begins work 30 January. —Gary Silberg, KPMG’s Automotive Sector Leader. —Gary Silberg.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 24, 2021

A case in point is intelligent speed assistance, which Ford has offered in Europe on the S-Max since 2015 and on the more affordable Focus since 2017 , well before the EU had even decided to make it mandatory. “In Ford marketed it by saying this was a way of never getting a speeding ticket again.”. “In

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 28, 2024

Affordable and fuel-efficient, the 800 democratised the passenger car and did so reliably, something new to the Indian landscape back then. That rivals like the Honda CR-V and Ford Endeavour were priced lower and appeared better value, sealed the XL-7’s fate. million households. lakh (ex-showroom, Mumbai) got the better of it.

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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 28, 2023

Flash Drive: 2024 Ford Mustang EcoBoost and Coyote 5.0 V8 Fun in the Last Pony Car Ford says people buy the Mustang for its looks. Ford is making sure the seventh-generation Mustang continues to be the American-built Pony Car motoring enthusiasts want, and maybe even need. While both have the turbocharged 2.3-liter

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

To reach affordable high-end functionality for autonomous driving requires a computing infrastructure capable of processing many cameras simultaneously while extracting from each camera high-level meaning such as location of multiple types of objects, lanes and drivable path information. million vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2014

Tesla is also readying the Model X, a more affordable crossover for launch by the end of 2014. Automakers like Ford are already looking to manage customers’ home energy by extending the data platforms that they are using to track vehicle power consumption.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2016

Ford intends to have a high-volume, highly autonomous SAE level 4-capable vehicle in commercial operation in 2021 in a ride-hailing or ride-sharing service. Ford has been developing and testing autonomous vehicles for more than 10 years. —Raj Nair, Ford executive vice president, Global Product Development, and CTO.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2017

kg) per vehicle (PPV) in 2015 to 565 PPV (256.3 The study finds that total aluminum content for North American lightweight vehicles will increase to nearly 9 billion pounds, averaging 466 PPV by 2020, an increase of 69 pounds from 2015. kg) per vehicle in 2015 to 61 pounds (27.7 kg) per vehicle in 2015 to 49 pounds (22.2

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

The cars, two of which were produced in association with major OEMs (Ford and Hyundai/Kia), exhibit substantial environmental and fuel-efficient benefits through low-cost hybridization. The vehicles were part of the ALABC display at the Advanced Automotive Battery Conference (AABC Europe 2015) held at the Rheingoldhalle in Mainz, Germany.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

In April 2009, Consumer Reports recommended only 17% of the GM cars they tested while they recommended 70% of the Fords. GM is developing a fifth generation system for 2015 which will have substantially longer range and a much smaller fuel cell stack than the generation four system. But too many older models drag it down. ”.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 17, 2023

Ford, for example, recently cut 3,000 highly-paid salaried and contract workers as a down payment to help fund the transition to EVs. Ford CEO Jim Farley has said , employee cuts are necessary as Ford has “too many places in some places, no doubt about it. Ford is not alone. Mercedes-Benz says it will be investing €1.3

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EV Central

JULY 27, 2023

Volvo bought Polestar in 2015, and for a time used the name on high-performance ICE- and hybrid-powered variants. Volvo had been bought from Ford by big Chinese car maker Geely in 2010. For those who will be able to afford it, this is an EV worth waiting for. Will prices reflect this, or not? Bottomline?

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2016

If prices went too low the LTO operators couldn’t afford to drill, which would shrink supply and cause prices to rise. The EIA reported June 14 that it expects LTO output to fall by another 118,000 b/d by July, mostly from the Bakken and Eagle Ford. on February 11.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

But the difference is that only a minority of Americans today can afford to buy a new car. You can see that every forecast issued for the number or penetration rate of electric cars, it should be in 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017—all of these forecasts have been wrong by up to an order of magnitude.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

But the difference is that only a minority of Americans today can afford to buy a new car. You can see that every forecast issued for the number or penetration rate of electric cars, it should be in 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017—all of these forecasts have been wrong by up to an order of magnitude.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 23, 2021

Affordable, Subcompact Crossover. Road Trip: 2018 Ford EcoSport. Road Test: 2015 Chevrolet Trax. Hyundai’s crossover entry point. The 2021 Hyundai Venue is the smallest crossover in the Hyundai line-up. Related Stories You Might Enjoy—The Hot Compact Crossover Choices. Road Test: 2020 Toyota CH-R. Road Test: 2020 Kia Soul.

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EV Match

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

MyEV.com has a comprehensive list of the best you can buy on a budget, including, but not limited to, the 2015-16 Volkswagen E-Golf, the 2015-2016 Kia Soul EV, the 2012-2017 Ford Focus Electric, and the popular Nissan Leaf (circa 2012-2016). . Used EVs: What to Look For.

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