Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Ford will upgrade its entire powertrain portfolio in China by bringing 20 advanced engines and transmissions to support its planned introduction of 15 new vehicles to China—the world’s largest auto market—by 2015. Ford also announced that it will produce its new 1.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

As the project approaches its mid-point, the research team—led by Ricardo and including Ford Motor Company, Controlled Power Technologies (CPT), the European Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium (EALABC), Faurecia and the University of Nottingham—has completed the build of the first functional integration prototype ADEPT vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2011

Ford introduced its new new B-MAX concept vehicle at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show, providing an early preview of its plans for the European small car market. The B-MAX is powered by a three-cylinder 1.0-liter liter Ford EcoBoost gasoline engine equipped with the Ford Auto-Start-Stop system. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2012

2013 Ford Fusion. Ford unveiled the new 2013 Ford Fusion midsize sedan, with conventional gasoline engine; hybrid featuring a next-generation of Ford’s hybrid system; and plug-in hybrid versions at the Detroit Auto Show—the first production sedan to offer that trio of options. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

liter EcoBoost gasoline turbocharged direct injection (GTDI) four-cylinder unit. Ford says the engine can deliver up to 15% better fuel economy than comparable six-cylinder engines. Other engines in Ford’s EcoBoost family are the 1.0-liter Ford specifically engineered the 2.3-liter Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2009

Ford Motor Company began production of its EcoBoost engines ( earlier post ) at Cleveland Engine Plant No. Ford invested $55 million to retool and reopen the plant, which had been idled in 2007. The “downsize and boost” strategy provides consumers better fuel economy without sacrificing the power for driving performance.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Ford revealed further details of the upcoming four-cylinder versions of its turbocharged, gasoline direct-injected EcoBoost engine family (earlier post) at the Frankfurt Motor Show, prior to their first European production applications in 2010. all-new Ford C-MAX (shown at Frankfurt) and 2.0-liter I-4 EcoBoost. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

The next-generation Ford Focus 5-door hatchback, revealed at the 2010 North American International Auto Show. Ford unveiled its strategically important next-generation Ford Focus in both four-door sedan and five-door hatchback styles at the 2010 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

Develop and demonstrate a highly efficient and clean diesel engine, an advanced waste heat recovery system, an aerodynamic Peterbilt tractor and trailer combination, and a fuel cell auxiliary power unit to reduce engine idling. Ford Motor Company. 38,831,115. Daimler Trucks North America, LLC. 39,559,868. 14,458,572. Cummins Inc.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 23, 2007

Ford is now getting the word out that the Ford Edge crossover platform gives the company "the ultimate in flexibility in researching advanced propulsion technology" and thus could easily use a small gasoline or downsized diesel engine in lieu of the fuel cell. And the mometum continues. Join Plug In Partners today.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

The HyBoost project ( earlier post ), a two-year collaborative research program led by Ricardo in partnership with Controlled Power Technologies, the European Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium, Ford, Imperial College London, and Valeo, aims to demonstrate a very cost-effective, ultra-efficient gasoline engine in a C-segment passenger car.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2010

The aim of this project is to develop an ultra-lightweight, gas turbine powered, electric vehicle range extender that will enable vehicle weight savings of 100 kg or more and a modest reduction in CO 2 emissions on the UNECE101 drive cycle. BladeBoost - A Novel Rotary Supercharger for Ultra-Efficient Downsized Gasoline Engines.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2012

SAE’s 2012 High Efficiency IC Engine Symposium in Detroit—the second as an immediate precursor to the SAE World Congress—opened on Sunday with a consideration of several alternative engine designs: opposed piston 2-stroke (Achates Power); variable compression ratio (MCE-5); split cycle (Scuderi); and advanced rotary (Liquid Piston).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2011

There is no strong advocacy for methanol (unlike ethanol) as a transportation fuel; therefore, they said, it has been displaced by ethanol as oxygenate of choice in gasoline blends. The toxicity (mortality) is comparable to or better than gasoline. It is a safe fuel. Vehicle use and optimization.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Independent on-engine test results have verified the simulation predictions that a Torotrak V-Charge variable drive mechanical supercharger enables more ambitious levels of engine downsizing. GTDI engine of the same Ford EcoBoost family outperformed the 1.5L A Ford Focus powered by a 1.0L Compared to a current 1.5L

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Ford Motor Company announced that the all-new Ford Mondeo (which is badged as Fusion in the US) in Europe will offer a new high-power diesel engine in addition to a new 1.0L EcoBoost gasoline engine option and a new hybrid option. The high-powered diesel will be available in early 2015. liter gasoline engine.

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Green Cars News

MAY 18, 2009

With the addition of the all-new EcoBoost engine, the new 2010 Lincoln MKS feature a powertrain that produces a combination of V-8 power and V-6 fuel economy. The new Lincoln MKS is the first Ford Motor Company vehicle to introduce a premium twin-turbocharged 3.5-liter Tags: Ford ecoboost lincoln.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2014

Source: Ford. At the US Department of Energy (DOE) Annual Merit Review in Washington, DC last week, Cory Weaver from Ford Research and Advanced Engineering reported that Ford has completed the planned build of 12 units of the new engine, and is working on vehicle integration for further testing per the project timeline.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2016

In Europe, Ford revealed the all-new 2.0-liter Building on the performance and technology of Ford’s award-winning EcoBoost gasoline engines, the EcoBlue diesel range will deliver power outputs ranging from 100 PS to 240 PS (99 to 237 hp). Developed by Ford engineering teams in the U.K. The four-cylinder 2.0-liter

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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.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 19, 2023

While this is clearly being done to comply with emissions regulations without having to sacrifice power, plenty have bemoaned the company’s decision to abandon V8 powertrains whilst pivoting toward electrification.& Bly said Stellantis' strategy will see new engines and improved versions of current gasoline powertrains.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2017

The all-new 2018 Volkswagen Tiguan—the second-generation of the vehicle—is powered by the latest version of the EA888 four-cylinder engine, the 2.0L Put another way, the rightsizing approach combines the fuel economy benefits of downsizing with the power of a larger-displacement unit. 2017 Ford Escape.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

The European Advanced Lead-Acid Battery Consortium (EALABC) is delivering a paper this week outlining the consortium’s approach to 48V hybridization at the 2 nd International Conference on Advanced Automotive 48V Power Supply Systems in Düsseldorf. The Valeo electric supercharger was developed in the UK by Controlled Power Technologies.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Due to a new actuator concept, the power can be transferred by the overlapping shifting through the disc clutches from one speed to the other without using a synchronisation or a dog clutch. First presented in 2009, the range extender is being integrated into a Ford Fiesta equipped with additional components needed for electrical driving.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 5, 2024

That means Kia—not Ford, Chevy, Toyota, Nissan, or any other maker—will bring the first electric SUV under $60,000 to the US market with a third row usable by almost any passenger. Its blocky styling is still sleeker than most gasoline three-row SUVs, and it attracted looks both when parked and on the highway. A pair of 12.3-inch

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 5, 2024

That means Kia—not Ford, Chevy, Toyota, Nissan, or any other maker—will bring the first electric SUV under $60,000 to the US market with a third row usable by almost any passenger. Its blocky styling is still sleeker than most gasoline three-row SUVs, and it attracted looks both when parked and on the highway. A pair of 12.3-inch

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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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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

As part of an aggressive deployment strategy for improving fuel efficiency across its product line-up in the near-to medium-term, Ford will offer its first-generation turbocharged, gasoline direct-injection EcoBoost engines ( earlier post ) in 90% of its product lineup by 2013. Planning background. ” First-generation EcoBoost.

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