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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

Clean Fleet Report

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. million annually in 2016 to $36.6 My test parallel park of Ford Escape was a breeze when the SUV parked itself. billion by 2025.

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Industry survey finds aluminum use in autos at all-time high; average per vehicle use expected to more than double from 2012 by 2025

Green Car Congress

Body, bumper and closure content grew by 58% from 2009 to 2012, with 30% of all hoods on 2012 vehicles being aluminum, saving a total of 100 million pounds (45,359 tonnes) of vehicle weight across the entire fleet. Market factors already in place are projected to push aluminum content to 400 pounds per vehicle in 2015/2016.

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Details of Ford’s green car strategy

Green Cars News

US car maker Ford has some hard work ahead if it is to meet new CAFE regulations and still sell the SUVs and pick-up trucks that are so popular across its home country. The Federal Government now requires a fleet average of 35.5mpg by the 2016 model year - this is an increase from today’s average of 25.3mpg.