Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2016

liter EcoBoost engine paired exclusively with the first volume-production 10-speed automatic transmission available from any automaker, 2017 Ford F-150 sees improvement in all three EPA fuel economy label estimates—city, highway and combined ratings—by 1 mpg over 2016 F-150; the 4x4 model improves by 2 mpg combined.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2016

Ford is making Auto Start-Stop technology standard across the entire lineup of EcoBoost-equipped 2017 F-150 pickups. The 2016 F-150 with 2.7-liter liter EcoBoost engines including the all-new high-output version for F-150 Raptor. liter EcoBoost engine comes standard with Auto Start-Stop.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2016

The 2017 Ford F-150 will offer an all-new, second-generation 3.5-liter F-150 remains the only truck in its segment to offer a twin-turbo V6 gasoline engine. F-150 remains the only truck in its segment to offer a twin-turbo V6 gasoline engine. liter EcoBoost engine available for the 2016 F-150.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

We''ve also got a video preview of the 2016 Toyota Mirai fuel-cell sedan, and gas-mileage figures for the 2015 Ford F-150. To start off the week, we''re recapping last week''s Los Angeles Auto Show news in our Week in Reverse feature. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2015

Ford will return to Le Mans in 2016 with the all-new Ford GT supercar ( earlier post ) to compete in the LM GTE Pro class, commemorating the 50 th anniversary of Ford’s 1966 overall victory. The new Ford GT race car for WEC and Le Mans competition unveiled today at Le Mans, France. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2021

Ford and SK Innovation signed an MoU to create a joint venture—to be called BlueOvalSK—to produce approximately 60 GWh annually in traction battery cells and array modules, starting mid-decade, with potential to expand. —Jim Farley, Ford president and CEO. About US$5.3 We will not cede our future to anyone else.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 4, 2015

The 2016 Ford F-150 will be offered with a gaseous-fuel prep package, allowing it. Natural-gas cars sell only in tiny numbers to individual retail buyers, although they have found some traction with fleets that have ready access to the fuel.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2016

Supported by partners, Clean City Coalitions and corporate sponsors, Alliance AutoGas is embarking on a 5300+ mile, 12-city, cross-country road trip—the Alliance AutoGas Coast-to-Coast Clean Air Ride —with its record-setting propane autogas F-150. Alliance’s new Engineered Conversion System, installed on a Bi-Fuel 2016 3.5-liter

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Green Car Reports

MAY 4, 2015

Today, we have pricing information for the 2016 Chevrolet Volt, the debut of Tesla's certified pre-owned program for electric cars, and a new natural gas option for the 2016 Ford F-150. All this and more on Green Car Reports. We've got more updates for our April plug-in electric car sales report.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 29, 2016

Today, we review the 2016 Chevrolet Volt, a Ford F-150 diesel could go up against the Ram 1500 EcoDiesel on fuel economy, and California legislators pass a bill that would allow out-of-state electric-car buyers to delivery in California tax free. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2017

Ford is investing $350 million in its Livonia Transmission Plant to support production of a new, advanced transmission for front-wheel-drive vehicles. The transmission will be finely tuned to blend fun driving and efficiency with Ford engines, including EcoBoost. In the past four months alone, Ford has announced more than $2.25

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 7, 2015

Today, we drive the 2016 Mitsubishi i-MiEV electric car, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) crash tests the 2015 Ford F-150 full-size pickup truck, and analysts predict resistance to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Clean Power Plan emissions rules. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Only now are selected media getting a chance to spend time with the all-new 2015 Ford F-150 pickup truck, which has a cab and pickup bed made of aluminum. But Ford is looking ahead. DON''T MISS: 2015 Ford F-150 SFE: Highest Gas Mileage Model For Aluminum Pickup Not unexpectedly.'

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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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Ford Motor Company and Alcoa Inc. Ford will use Alcoa’s Micromill material ( earlier post ) in multiple components on the 2016 F-150, becoming the first automaker to use the advanced automotive aluminum commercially. The door inner is one of the most difficult parts in automotive stamping.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2019

The light-duty diesel segment is led by three models: the Mercedes Sprinter, Ford Transit, and Ford F-150. The F-150 diesel is new for 2018; sales represented approximately 5% of total F-150 sales. Source: Diesel Technology Forum.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2017

In New York yesterday, Ford Motor Company provided a strategic update to investors; the presentation follows a four-month deep dive into Ford’s strategy and business operations led by President and CEO Jim Hackett and Ford’s senior leadership team. By 2019, 100% of Ford’s new US vehicles will be built with connectivity.

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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

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Year-to-date, total sales of EcoBoost-powered Ford vehicles are up 46%; F-150, Escape and Fusion are the top-selling EcoBoost-powered Ford vehicles. Ford expects 2015 will be the first year in which EcoBoost-equipped vehicles in the United States exceed 1 million sales. liter V6 debuts in 2016. liter and 2.3-liter

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Ford is working with California-based Ekso Bionics to test the use of exoskeleton technology for Ford assembly workers. Some Ford assembly line workers lift their arms during overhead work tasks some 4,600 times per day, or about 1 million times per year. incidents per 100 full-time North American employees.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Today, one owner describes what it's like to buy an electric car in Texas, the 2017 Ford F-150 full-size pickup truck is set to launch next month with a new 10-speed automatic transmission, and we have more details on the new Kia Rio debuting at the 2016 Paris Motor Show. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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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 Reports

OCTOBER 2, 2015

The 2016 Chevrolet Volt, for which deliveries began just this week, is going into attack mode against the Nissan Leaf and Toyota Prius in a set of new ads. They build on focus-group-themed ads that Chevy has launched against Ford, and its new F-150. In that.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 28, 2016

Today, we look at the real-world range of the Volkswagen e-Golf electric car, a potential Chinese Tesla rival, and the 2016 Volvo XC60 crossover. The Ford F-150 aluminum-stamping plant in Dearborn, Michigan. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2016

Nestlé Waters North America is adding more than 150 medium-duty beverage delivery trucks fueled by propane autogas. Over the vehicles’ lifetime, the 155 Ford F-650 trucks will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 24.6 million pounds. These units will be deployed beginning in April. Milwaukee and Fort Lauderdale.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 29, 2024

Nissan and Mitsubishi have been intertwined since 2016. Meanwhile, the electric truck market is already gaining competition, with the Tesla Cybertruck and Chevy Silverado EV joining Ford’s F-150 Lightning and the Rivian R1T. The changes go into effect April 1, 2024. The changes go into effect April 1, 2024.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2016

Ford Motor Company is the first automaker to formulate and test new foam and plastic components using carbon dioxide as feedstock. Researchers expect to see the new biomaterials in Ford production vehicles within five years. Novomer is excited by the pioneering work Ford has completed with our Converge CO 2 -based polyols.

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Teslarati

MARCH 7, 2022

The reservations of vehicles like the Ford F-150 Lightning and, more recently, the Chevy Silverado EV, have proven that even conventional vehicle buyers are excited about upcoming electric vehicles. Back in 2016, the Sierra Club sent out volunteers to over 300 dealerships across the United States.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 24, 2023

note: Larry originally wrote this in 2016, but since Toyota is still advertising about its hybrid “that doesn’t need to be plugged in,” we thought it was worth updating and repeating.]

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Ford Mustang Mach-E 15,938. for 2016, followed by the Model X. Ford Mustang Mach-E (& F-150 Lightning & E-Transit). Ford has had little to show in the EV market some some time. First volley–a recasting of the iconic Ford Mustang as an electric crossover– the Mach-E.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

From the outside, there is little to tell a basic Ford XL ICE. F-150 from the electric Ford PRO F-150 Lightning. seconds , making it the fastest F-150 available despite its much heavier weight. The 2016 ICE F-150 reportedly had about. 150 million lines of code.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 27, 2022

Volkswagen , Nissan , and Hyundai have moved to produce the kinds of cars that can use such bidirectional chargers—alongside similar vehicle-to- home technology , whereby your car can power your house, say, during a blackout, as promoted by Ford with its new F-150 Lightning. We Drive Solar from his Utrecht home in 2016.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

In the 2016 model year there was a single model—the Tesla Model S P100D —offering a 300-mile range. Tesla Model Y It took until late 2020, with the arrival of the 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E , for any non-Tesla to reach 300 miles of EPA-rated range. By that time the Model 3 Long Range had hit 330 miles.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 23, 2024

4 (all models) (2021- 2022 ) $4,000 VOLVO C40 (2022) $4,000 XC40 Recharge (2021- 2022 ) $4,000 Last updated 1/23/2024, most recent changes in bold The Audi Q5 TFSI e Quattro. 4 (all models) (2021- 2022 ) $4,000 VOLVO C40 (2022) $4,000 XC40 Recharge (2021- 2022 ) $4,000 Last updated 1/23/2024, most recent changes in bold The Audi Q5 TFSI e Quattro.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2017

This is a much different timing pattern than Ford exhibited on the F-150. —“Aluminum Content In North American Light Vehicles 2016 to 2028”. The emerging pattern has more aluminum added with each model change over a ten to fifteen year period until all the closures are aluminum and at least 50% the body is aluminum.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 22, 2024

In 2016, nearly 200 countries ratified the Paris Agreement, an international treaty to reduce emissions and slow global warming. and a direct competitor of the Rivian R1T, Ford F-150 Lightning and Tesla Cybertruck. How will the federal government use EVs to reach its target?

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