Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2018

Ford dealers will begin taking orders for the 2018 F-150 with all-new 3.0-liter The same Ford powertrain team behind the 6.7-liter For greater responsiveness and reduced turbo lag, the Ford truck team chose a high-efficiency variable-geometry turbocharger. —David Ives, Ford diesel engine technical specialist.

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Teslarati

MARCH 31, 2022

Chief Jeff Christiansen and Mayor Jeff Davis believes the Tesla Model 3 is a good investment, stating that the vehicle would save costs in the long run. I sat and researched the new Ford Explorer interceptors, the Dodge Chargers. Coming in with his own estimates, Mayor Davis added: “It’s a great investment for our town.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2009

Using a micro-hybrid system featuring carbon/carbon ultracapacitor units as energy storage can result in significant increases in fuel economy over a baseline conventional vehicle, according to a study by Dr. Andrew Burke at UC Davis. Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis, Research Report UCD-ITS-RR-09-23.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2010

liter, four-cylinder Ford hydrogen-fueled internal combustion engines (HICE). —Darryl Davis, president of Boeing Phantom Works. Earlier post.) The Phantom Eye is propelled by two 2.3-liter, The engines deliver 150 hp (112 kW) each.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2014

The MY 2015 Ford F-150 will offer a new high-output, twin-turbo 2.7-liter Ford testing shows the 2.7-liter liter V8 while towing a 7,000-pound enclosed trailer up Davis Dam in Arizona. This is the same grade the Society of Automotive Engineers uses for its J2807 towing testing standards, which the 2015 Ford F-150 will follow.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2012

The judges are VTP’s Pat Davis; Patrick Kennedy, CEO, OSISoft; Venkatesh Prasad, Senior Technical Leader, Open Innovation and Member, Ford Technology Advisory Board; and Jo Strang, Associate Administrator, Safety Data Initiative, Department of Transportation.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2010

The 2011 Ford F-150 EcoBoost won in a head-to-head powertrain performance exercise while towing a 9,000-pound (4,082 kg) trailer against the Chevy Silverado and Dodge RAM with much larger displacement V8 engines during a demonstration staged by Ford near Davis Dam in Arizona. EcoBoost vs. Ford 3.5L Ford faster by 12.6

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2015

The research, conducted by Argonne researchers in collaboration with Stanford University and the University of California, Davis, analyzed the Eagle Ford shale formation in Texas and the Bakken play mainly in North Dakota. For Eagle Ford, GREET-derived WTR (well-to-refinery gate) GHG intensities range from 8.8 for diesel, and 5.1

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2015

A team of engineers from GM Powertrain, Ford and FCA have published a detailed review of how to estimate the engine efficiency benefits of higher octane fuel—e.g., Davis, Asim Iqbal, Ronald A. fuel with higher ethanol content—for part- and full-load operation for different engine types and fuel assumptions. Leone, James E.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2009

Based on detailed model-level data for US light-duty vehicles from 1980 to 2006, a recent analysis by a UC Davis researcher found that if weight, horsepower and torque had been held at their 1980 levels, fuel economy for both passenger cars and light trucks could have increased by nearly 50% from 1980 to 2006. Knittel, 2009.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2016

The partners and supporters of the Decarbonizing Transport Partners are: Aeromexico - Air Transport Action Group (ATAG) - Anheuser Busch InBev – Brisa Group – China Communications Constructions Company (CCCC) – Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER) – COSCO Group – European Conference of Transport Research Institutes (ECTRI) (..)

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Plug In Partners

MAY 16, 2006

photo by George Lange L ast week, Bill Ford made an announcement at his Stockholder meeting. Pressed by activists to take steps to improve the efficiency of Ford's vehicle line-up, Bill Ford Jr, great-grandson of Henry Ford, said the carmaker was considering launching a plug-in hybrid , a potential industry first.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2010

—Darryl Davis, Boeing Phantom Works president. In 2007, Boeing announced that, using a Ford Motor Company-developed hydrogen engine, it had successfully tested the hydrogen propulsion system of its High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) unmanned aircraft. Other work on Phantom Eye is being done in Irvine and Huntington Beach, Calif.,

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Hydrogen Building St. Louis Power 218

Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2014

In March 2014, Honda launched Honda Smart Home US at the University of California, Davis, which seeks to investigate the integration of the home with distributed renewable energy, the smart grid and the electric vehicle. Ford Motor Company is collaborating with a number of companies on MyEnergi Lifestyle showcases. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2009

Teslas, RAV4 EVs, Ford Rangers, Neighborhood Electric Vehicles, even EV conversions can be charged at the six-port station, in the parking lot of the new Woodland Gateway Shopping Center. Tesla station. Tesla and RAV4 EV charging at the new station. The opening of the station, a brainchild of the Electric Auto Assn.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2012

The Sustaining Members of CRC are the American Petroleum Institute (API) and a group of automobile manufacturer members (Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Toyota, and Volkswagen). —Pat Davis. The observed failures do not show that specific valvetrain types are more or less sensitive to ethanol content.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2011

White Construction and Ford, Bacon & Davis LLC are finalizing the engineering work necessary to enter the EPC phase of the project. Construction of the Port St. Joe Project is expected to begin in August 2011, with the facility anticipated to be in service in 2013.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

It’s immediately clear how fully-electric battery electric vehicles (BEVs) can help reduce emissions; eliminating gasoline and tailpipes in favor of increasingly. continued] The post Plug-in Hybrids: Are They Really A Solution To Reducing Emissions? appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

Source: Ford. Ford’s turbocharged, gasoline direct injection EcoBoost engines are targeted to play a significant near-term role in Ford’s efforts to reduce fuel consumption by enabling downsizing. Source: Ford. Unfortunately, the Ford engineers noted, the two requirements are generally competing. Source: Ford.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2010

Richard Parry-Jones, a member of the working group and former Group Vice President of the Ford Motor Company. Davy Thielena, KEMA Consulting. A more likely alternative to widespread adoption of pure electric vehicles with their infrastructure requirement would be the plug-in hybrid. Professor Phil Blythe, Newcastle University.

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Electric Auto Association

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

This has included EV Coast to Coast, the Alternative Propulsion exhibit opening which also marked the successful termination of EVA member Daphne Dixon’s cross country trip in a Ford Mustang Mach-E. Three of 26 chargers added at Eugen Dunlap’s condo building in Davis. This is especially important for the underserved.

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Plug In Partners

FEBRUARY 13, 2006

13, 2006 Andrew Frank, University of California at Davis Mechanical engineering professor and researcher Andrew Frank has spent much of the last 30 years studying electric motors and batteries to make vehicles more fuel-efficient. Look at the first year of the Ford Escape hybrid. Bill Ford will up that from 20,000 to 250,000 a year.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 21, 2009

In response to the scheme, both General Motors and Ford ramped up production, adding shifts and rehired laid off workers to meet renewed demand. The scheme has not been without controversy though; one UC Davis transportation economist Christopher Knittel criticized the scheme as a costly way to reduce carbon emissions.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 26, 2006

FIALKA Staff Reporter THE WALL STREET JOURNAL January 25, 2006 DAVIS, Calif. -- In the 1950s, an aspiring Pasadena hot-rodder named Andrew Frank shocked the competition by powering his 1936 Ford with a Cadillac V-12 engine. "It Their first move with a Ford Motor Co. It had gobs of torque," he recalls. In June, U.C.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Director at the ETA, Andrew Davis, said: “Car makers can build green cars, but they need us to buy them. Ford / 8 / 152. The average British driver comes sixteenth in the list with 158g/km (eg. VW Passat). EU regulation is striving to cut the CO2 emitted by cars to an average figure of 130 g/km by 2015. Ranking in 2008.

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Plug In Partners

JULY 20, 2006

Four years ago, the professor at the University of California at Davis and a team of engineering students created a plug-in vehicle. No wimpy econo-box, the modified Ford Explorer was a 325 horsepower " rocket " that still got the equivalent of 100-plus miles per gallon even after a tiny gas engine kicked in, says Dr.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 18, 2009

And so it proved as the subsidy programme helped Ford to its first increase in US vehicles sales since 2007 after it sold 158,838 vehicles in July – a two per cent increase compared to the previous year (see article ). With General Motors and Chrysler also showing signs of modest improvement, all looked rosy.

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Setec Powerr

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

At the UN climate conference in November 2021, six major automakers, including Ford and General Motors, pledged to stop selling new gasoline and diesel vehicles by 2040. UC Davis research points to a shift in the mindset of EV buyers. President Joe Biden has set a goal that by 2030, half of new car sales in the U.S.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. The easiest conversions are for 2004-2008 Prius (not 2001-2003 Prius) and the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrid. Both Toyota and Ford are now producing a few prototype conversions of their own Priuses and Escapes for research purposes.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2013

The incentives approved today will be awarded to: A-Z Bus Sales in Colton ($500,000 for the buy-down of 25 propane school buses); Big Valley Ford, Inc. To receive the incentives, buyers must agree to register and operate the vehicles in California at least 90 percent of the time for three years.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Dan Sperling, the director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, estimated that a typical electric car battery would cost the automaker $12,000, and a 240-volt charging unit would cost a household at least $1,500.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Ford Escape PHEV-40 around 2012. Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) Mazda Ford Partner was reported to be developing Series PHEV based on Mazda 5 MPV platform. Establishing dealer network.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Below is a chronology of hybrid Toyota Priuses and Ford Escapes that have been converted. Vehicles converted by Professor Andy Frank and his team at the UC Davis Hybrid Center are listed at our History of PHEVs page , with further info at www.team-fate.net. Unless otherwise noted, all are Prius. Jim Tech Ltd. Full size photo Mayor R.T.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Think Global was formerly known as Think City, a prior Ford Motor Company ( F ) acquisition and part of a now-defunct Think division at Ford. The Think Global would definitly be classified as a mini-car, several size classes smaller than a compact car like the Honda Civic or Ford Focus. a subsidiary of Ener1 Inc. ENON.OB ) ).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

1 Jack Haddad 2 Hedged In 3 Investutopia 4 Mike Havrilla 5 Mad Hedge Fund Tr.

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