Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Ford is investing an additional £190 million (US$306 million) at its Dagenham London site to produce a family of all-new advanced 2.0-liter liter diesel engines (code-named Panther ) in a wide range of outputs due to be applied in commercial vehicles starting in 2016 and in cars starting in 2018. Earlier post.) million (US$14.3

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2011

ABI Research forecasts that the installed base of embedded OEM and aftermarket connected car systems is expected to grow from 41 million at the end of 2011 to 189 million by 2016. Despite all the hype about hybrid and smartphone-based telematics solutions, embedded connected car systems still have a bright future.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2017

Ford Motor Company has appointed Jim Hackett as Ford Motor Company president and CEO, replacing Mark Fields, who is retiring, effective immediately. s turnaround, served as interim Athletic Director at University of Michigan, and has led Ford Smart Mobility LLC since March 2016. Ford also shuffled its executive suite.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2016

to add best-in-class Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology and services—specifically in the connected vehicle and mobile enterprise management sectors—as well as expanded distribution relationships to its Verizon Telematics subsidiary. Verizon Communications Inc. signed an agreement to purchase Telogis, Inc. Barclays and J.P.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2016

Ford reports that sales of its full-size Transit passenger vans are up 30% year-on-year through June, partly driven by growing numbers of large families are turning to the Transit instead of minivans. According to Ford, Transit vans outsold every other van in the United States over the first half of 2016, including minivans.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2017

XL Hybrids has received a California Air Resources Board Executive Order (CARB EO) allowing aftermarket conversions of gasoline-powered Ford Transit cargo vans and passenger wagons to be upgraded with the XL3 Hybrid Electric Drive System. The second 100 vehicles per fleet will receive $2,000 vouchers for each upfitted Ford Transit van.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2018

Ford has released the first images of the new Territory, a mid-size SUV targeted at new buyers in emerging cities in China. Ford developed the Territory together with its joint venture partner, Jiangling Motors Corporation (JMC). —Peter Fleet, president, Asia Pacific and chairman & CEO, Ford China.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2016

Ford is investing $182.2 The investment was part of Pivotal’s $253-million Series C financing round; the round was led by new investor Ford, in conjunction with Microsoft and all previous investors GE, EMC and VMware. Ford intends for the $182.2-million

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2015

Toyota Motor Corporation has reached an agreement with Ford Motor Company to explore collaboration with Livio, a Ford subsidiary acquired in 2013 ( earlier post ), for the implementation of SmartDeviceLink (SDL) technology in future Toyota and Lexus vehicles. The announcement builds on that earlier collaboration.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Researchers at the University of Michigan and Ford Motor Company have found that using a Level 4 connected and automated vehicle (CAV) subsystem could increase vehicle primary energy use and GHG emissions by 3–20% due to increases in power consumption, weight, drag, and data transmission. Credit: ACS, Gawron et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2015

Chevrolet’s new 2016 Malibu, engineered to offer more efficiency, connectivity and advanced safety features, and featuring the option of a new full-hybrid powertrain ( earlier post ), is also nearly 300 pounds (136 kg) lighter than the current model. 2016 Chevrolet Malibu 1LT (1.5L 2015 Ford Fusion SE (2.5L). Curb weight.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

At a “Go Further with Ford” event in Amsterdam, Ford Motor Company detailed plans for an aggressive product acceleration in Europe, targeting opportunities for growth in the large car, SUV and commercial vehicle segments while emphasizing fuel economy and enabling technologies such as the EcoBoost engines. Click to enlarge. New Fiesta.

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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. Connected consumers.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Ford is offering a software update to more than 5 million SYNC-equipped vehicle owners—with vehicles dating all the way back to the 2011 model year—adding Apple Siri Eyes-Free capability for hands-free access to additional iPhone features. The simple, downloadable update will be available through [link].

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2016

A new Ford Motor Company pilot program aims to enhance mobility health services in rural areas of South Africa and Nigeria. The services will be accessed using enhanced mobility and connectivity technologies from Ford vehicles. —Bill Ford, executive chairman. Mobility and electrification. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

The adjustable cargo floorboard in the all-new 2018 Ford EcoSport is made of high-strength 100% recycled paper honeycomb. Ford introduced the EcoSport for North America in November 2016 (via the first Snapchat reveal). Ford introduced the EcoSport for North America in November 2016 (via the first Snapchat reveal).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2016

Ford and drone-maker DJI are exploring smart drone-to-vehicle integration. At CES 2016, Ford announced that the two have launched the DJI Developer Challenge to create drone-to-vehicle communications using Ford SYNC AppLink or OpenXC. The challenge winner receives $100,000.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Ford Motor Company will offer three years of complimentary charging to California and Maryland customers who purchase or lease a 2016 C-MAX Energi with its pilot EV 1-2-3 Charge program. 2016 Ford C-MAX. The 2016 C-MAX Energi combines a 141 hp 2.0L C-MAX Energi is capable of being fully charged in approximately 2.5

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2016

Ford is expanding its SYNC connectivity system, adding Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, 4G LTE and several new AppLink apps. There are currently more than 15 million SYNC-equipped vehicles on roads around the world; Ford expects some 43 million by 2020. Ford is further enhancing AppLink capabilities for developers.

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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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Electra Vehicles

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The electric vehicle industry continues to fortify its advances in all-electric driving with features beyond the battery like Over-the-Air (OTA) updates and Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) connectivity, both of which create smarter, higher performing, and more connected vehicles. Electra's 5G Connectivity for Battery Packs.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2017

Major automotive OEMs, suppliers, as well as small technology start-ups are expected to partner or collaborate with the aim of reducing the price point of top features, offering new business models such as connectivity through the cloud and data-based services to end users.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2012

The actions—along with a previously announced initiative to reduce approximately 500 salaried and agency positions across Europe, with the Ford salaried reductions achieved voluntarily—affect 6,200 positions or about 13% of Ford’s European workforce. Ford plans to close the two facilities in the UK in 2013.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2015

The new Ford GT on display in the Ford stand at NAIAS. In December, Ford President and CEO Mark Fields said Ford would focus on five key areas of innovation, one of them being performance. Ford’s electric drive vehicle sales. Ford has been selling hybrids and, later plug-ins, since 2004. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2016

The students help bring connected and driverless innovations closer to market. Mcity, operated by the U-M Mobility Transformation Center, is the first controlled environment specifically designed to test the potential of connected and automated vehicle technologies. Ford has also taken a stake. In July, the company raised $6.6

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Car-to-X communication has been installed as standard in combination with navigation systems since 2016—first in the E-Class and now in all Mercedes-Benz vehicles—and is available after activation by the user. To use the Car-to-X service the customer must also hold a Mercedes me connect account.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 18, 2023

But Ford Motor Co. annually, having Oakville Assembly down means Ford had to come up with something and it elected to pull China out of the bullpen — setting the SUV up to become Ford’s very first Chinese import. Ford has struggled by comparison. since 2016. However, the automaker had announced an investment of $1.8

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 28, 2023

The last year has seen more change in the EV charging landscape than at any time since the VW Group agreed in June 2016 to pay $2 billion to set up a nationwide fast charging network in the US to settle its Dieselgate scandal. Only Ford provided written responses to (a few of) our questions. Remember Dieselgate?”

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2009

Sue Cischke, Ford group vice president, Sustainability, Environment and Safety Engineering, pointed to the “ key role ” government policies such as fuel standards and greenhouse gas emission regulations, play in the development and support of Ford’s product and technology pathways. mpg in 2016. Ford received a $62.7

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Nexar , developer of a vehicle-to-vehicle network app that turns smartphones into connected AI dashcams, will join the Berkeley DeepDrive ( BDD ) Industry Consortium, a research alliance bringing together private industry sponsors, faculty, and researchers from multiple departments and centers.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 3, 2021

Tesla, Volvo, Mercedes (Daimler), BMW, Audi, GM, Ford, Nissan, Toyota and others are now delivering cars with some of these features and developing cars with all of these. Several of these firms confirmed their progress at Silicon Valley Connected & Charged Symposium, hosted by software giant SAP. million annually in 2016 to $36.6

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

The Localization & AR Maps launch follows Civil Maps’ successful seed round in July 2016, funded in part by Ford ( earlier post ). This allows machines to crowdsource data from many vehicles and connect to the cloud through 4G LTE at low cost, due to its light data footprint and an automated data collection and mapping process.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 25, 2021

Ford plans to scale up 140 GW of capacity in North America by 2030 (and 240 GW globally), in partnership with South Korea's SK Innovation. Ford figures that's about six plants' worth of homegrown capacity, and 10 globally. Contemporary Amperex Technology and LG Energy Solution's staggering growth rates from 2016 to 2020 are.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The new research, Autonomous Vehicles & ADAS: Adoption, Regulation & Business Models 2016-2025 , found that the market adoption of AV (Autonomous Vehicle) technology is set to accelerate over the next few years, driven by increasingly stringent vehicle safety specifications; environmental pressures; and rapid technological developments.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

The new V90 delivers Pilot Assist semi-autonomous drive technology with large animal detection and run-off road mitigation, and leading connectivity including smartphone integration with Apple CarPlay. Håkan Samuelsson, president and chief executive said that the carmaker expects to make record sales in 2016 for the third consecutive year.

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Electric Auto Association

JULY 13, 2021

“In Detroit, we’re working in the Corktown neighborhood, where Ford has been developing Michigan Central, a new mobility innovation district around the old train station,” Peters said. Enrolling the whole family The Peters family began its EV journey in 2016 with a used Fiat 500E that Michael imported from California.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2015

By comparison: The new Ford Shelby GT 350 will feature a naturally aspirated 5.2L The 2014 Ford Shelby GT500 is powered by an aluminum 5.8-liter A DC/DC converter provides the connection to the 12‑volt electrical system. engine delivering more than 500 hp (373 kW), or approximately 75 kW/L. ft) within the first 2.5

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