Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Ford is expanding its electrified vehicles research and development program in Europe and Asia this year, creating a “hub-and-spoke” system that allows the global team to further accelerate battery technology and take advantage of market-specific opportunities. Ford electrified vehicle sales in the US.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Fully autonomous Ford Fusion Hybrid sedans will begin testing on California streets next year, as Ford Research and Innovation Center Palo Alto continues growing. Ford is officially enrolled in the California Autonomous Vehicle Tester Program to test autonomous vehicles on public roads. Click to enlarge. Data-driven health care.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Daimler AG and leading energy companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Berlin, with the participation of the German Minister of Transport, Wolfgang Tiefensee, to evaluate and expand the setup of a hydrogen infrastructure in Germany to support the series production of fuel cell electric vehicles. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2015

Ford Motor Company will begin making its London-based GoDrive car-sharing service available to the public. billion) by 2020, Ford is introducing GoDrive to target on-demand use and gain insight on emerging mobility trends and customers’ car-sharing habits. —Alicia Agius, project lead, GoDrive, Ford of Europe. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2012

An average of 48% of motorists surveyed from Germany, Spain, France, Great Britain, Italy and Russia confessed to checking their texts while driving, with 61% of Italian motorists saying they had done so compared with 55% in Russia, 49% in France and Germany, 40% in Spain and 33% in Great Britain. Earlier post.).

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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. The main sales markets in 2019 were China, Norway, Germany, the USA and the United Kingdom. Ford will be one of the first automakers to use the MEB.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Ford Motor Company has entered into two new research collaborations driving innovation in mobility and autonomous vehicles. Ford also this year is contributing to the UK Autodrive initiative that is researching how driverless and connected cars can be integrated into everyday life. —Mark Fields, Ford president and CEO.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2014

Automakers will want to tap into connectivity to offer information and entertainment services. 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. H2USA, the new U.S.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 13, 2021

It is also not in any way connected to a Model 3’s automated features. In 2015, California accounted for 43% of Tesla’s new vehicle registrations , as per data from IHS Markit. Credit: Teslarati. The state still offers clean vehicle rebates, and there is still a Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) mandate for automakers.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2015

Combining Volvo’s new design language, advanced safety and in-car connectivity technologies, and the new strategic Drive-E powertrains, the XC90 is the first product based on Volvo’s new strategic Scalable Product Architecture (SPA). In 1999, Ford acquired Volvo as part of its Premier Auto Group. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

After the proposal for the Combined Charging System (CCS) was published in Germany in 2011, a group of automakers and suppliers formed CharIN to promote the adoption of CCS. We just had one that happened in Germany and [another] in the San Francisco Bay area. I think those three words resonate very well with our mission. It’s a must.

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