Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2012

Ford is pricing the new C-MAX Energi—expected to offer 15 class-exclusive features, a 550-mile (885 km) total range and more than 20 miles (32 km) of electric-only range ( earlier post )—at $33,745. —Michael O’Brien, Ford electrified vehicle marketing manager.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Ford Motor Company is publicly demonstrating smart electrification technology that uses cloud-based computing and data to optimize a plug-in hybrid’s powertrain efficiency at the Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress in Orlando. In September, Ford introduced the Evos Concept was introduced at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Ford Auto Start-Stop. Ford will begin applying start-stop technology—currently used in Ford hybrids and some Ford cars in Europe—in conventional cars, crossovers and SUVs in North America in 2012. Ford is the leading domestic producer of start-stop systems. Click to enlarge.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 11, 2021

Photos by John Faulkner and Ford. Ford says the all-new 2021 Bronco Sport is “Built Wild.” That wild creature is now at your local Ford dealer where it will be taking on the Subaru Crosstrek , Mazda CX-30 and Jeep Compass and Renegade head-to-head. The all-new 2021 Ford Bronco has two EcoBoost gasoline engine choices.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 18, 2024

Honda beat everybody to the production gasoline-electric hybrid game in the United States, putting the Insight in showrooms in 1999. Toyota followed with the Prius a year later, but it took GM until 2006 to introduce its first true gasoline-electric hybrid here.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Ford now sells an electric car and some plug-in hybrids, but you don''t hear all that much about them. They''re just a few drops in an ocean of gasoline EcoBoost engines. Meanwhile, Ford recently built its two-millionth EcoBoost engine, a 2.0-liter liter four-cylinder destined for an Escape crossover utility vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2010

The 2011 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid uses Ford’s second-generation hybrid system, based on the 2.5-liter Ford notes that the Lincoln MKZ Hybrid’s projected fuel economy tops its nearest competitor—the 2010 Lexus HS 250h—by 6 mpg, while providing room for one more passenger and more standard luxury and segment-exclusive safety features.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Ford Motor Company and Smith Electric Vehicles US (SEV US) have mutually agreed to terminate the development project of an electric car-derived van based on Transit Connect. It was concerned that the market for electric car-derived vans would become increasingly competitive. Ford and Azure. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2010

The US government’s General Services Administration (GSA) this summer took delivery of the first of more than 5,600 hybrid vehicles ordered earlier this year, and will make the vehicles—almost all of which are Ford Fusion hybrids—available to various federal agencies under GSA lease agreements as they are delivered.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2013

The Electrification Coalition released two case studies outlining how two cities— Houston, Texas and Loveland, Colorado —are saving money by using electric vehicles (EVs) in their vehicle fleets. found that the city’s LEAFs will cost 41% less to own and operate than gasoline-powered vehicles. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE), through its Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity ( AVTA ) at Idaho National Laboratory (INL), has completed 1 million miles of plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) testing. Hymotion Escape A123Systems. Ford E85 Escape Johnson Controls/Saft. Electrovaya Escape Electrovaya.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 2, 2022

Clean Fleet Report will have detailed reviews of the Sportage gasoline, hybrid and eventually the plug-in hybrid in the coming months. Liter Inline 4-cylinder, Gasoline. Liter Inline 4-cylinder, Gasoline. Liter Inline 4-cylinder Turbo+44 kilowatt (kW) motor, Gasoline-Electric. kW motor, Gasoline-Electric.

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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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EV Life

JUNE 8, 2023

The electric vehicle market has expanded rapidly in the last few years as automakers have introduced a variety of EV models to keep up with demand. These days, all-electric options are available in every type of vehicle, from high-horsepower electric sports cars to stylish electric luxury sedans to torque-heavy electric trucks.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Ford has a winner on their hands with the all-new 2022 Ford Maverick compact pickup. Maybe Ford went with Maverick because it can mean “pursuing rebellious, even potentially disruptive, policies or ideas.” Ford has certainly done this by resurrecting the compact pickup genre that was once so popular in the 1960s-1980s.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2009

estimates that the new vehicles will save 49 million gallons of gasoline and reduce carbon emissions by 211,000 metric tons over the 10-year deployment period. Over the next five years, AT&T will replace about 8,000 gasoline-powered service vehicles with vehicles powered by domestically available CNG.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 5, 2023

The all-new 2023 Prius Prime gets two less miles per gallon in hybrid mode than the 2022 model, but the all-electric driving range has increased substantially. Smart owners will quickly learn that, by plugging-in daily, they will reap the benefits of electric driving. Driver options The 2023 Toyota Prius Prime uses a 13.6

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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 17, 2023

Top Picks for Fuel Efficiency Hybrid and electric cars like the Toyota Prius or Nissan Leaf are great choices due to their remarkable ability to conserve fuel. Nevertheless, among traditional gasoline cars, the Honda Civic and Hyundai Elantra (now with a hybrid model) are notable for their remarkable fuel efficiency.

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Plugs and Cars

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

Fuel-saving gasoline-electric hybrid cars don't save as much fuel as thought, according to new government fuel-economy ratings available to the public for the first time. The Ford Escape hybrid, which uses a gasoline-electric drive system similar to Toyota's, goes down about 12 percent. RATINGS GOING DOWN.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 12, 2022

When Clean Fleet Report first reviewed the 2022 Ford Maverick compact pickup, it was after driving it for about five hours. We came away impressed with what Ford had created. Among them, none may have been more important than the 2022 Ford Maverick. Who will buy the all-new 2022 Ford Maverick? That was in October 2021.

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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. Most of these advanced vehicles will be electric or plug-in hybrids. My test parallel park of Ford Escape was a breeze when the SUV parked itself.

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Plug In Partners

MAY 20, 2008

N ow that the number one automaker and the number two automaker has made the commitment to building Plug In hybrid / electric vehicles by 2010, another automotive giant is joining the race. Here is the story from the New York Times : Nissan Plans Electric Car in U.S. Plus, in 2010, Nissan plans to start selling electric cars worldwide.

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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 5, 2021

The 2021 Kia Niro PHEV is one of three electrified Niro models to choose from, alongside a hybrid and a pure battery electric version. liter four-cylinder gasoline engine mated to an 8.9 kW electric motor. Charge up for electric-only local driving. Story by John Faulkner. Photos by John Faulkner and Kia. Smooth Operator.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 25, 2022

Subaru’s All-New, All-Electric Compact SUV. The all-new, all-electric 2023 Solterra compact SUV is a major step for Subaru, one that will be a welcome addition for its loyal owners. But the Solterra completely leaves gasoline behind and is all-electrons all-the-time. Red and ready to go off-road. Two Motors, AWD Standard.

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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 12, 2022

The 2022 Lincoln Corsair PHEV Grand Touring is a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, powered by a 2.5-liter liter non-turbocharged, I4 engine and two electric motors producing a total system 266 horsepower. That number jumps to 78 MPGe, or miles per gallon equivalent, when looking at the car’s electric power. The way to Lincoln.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

With average gasoline prices (all grades) remaining down from their highs in mid-2008, light trucks continued to outsell cars in January 2009. The Prius mid-size gas-electric hybrid posted January sales of 8,121 units, down 28.6% Ford, Lincoln and Mercury sales totaled 90,596 in January, down 38.9% to 341,113 units.

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Plug In Partners

MAY 23, 2007

The Volt , provided GM can get the lithium battery right , will go about 40 miles on an electric charge. But I can’t help thinking that this technology will make the current crop of hybrids like the Toyota Prius and Ford Escape look like Ford Excursions. Imagine using your laptop computer on a battery. It runs down.

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EV Adoption

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

But in the automotive world and especially when related to electric vehicles, deliveries frequently fall well short of what was promised. And it is looking through that lens that I wanted to dive into GM’s most recent electric vehicle “supply” promise. Electric Vehicle PR Is Driving Up the Stock Price.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2011

Ford Motor Company is tripling production capacity of its electrified vehicle lineup through 2013 to more than 100,000 units, further boosting volumes of its C-MAX Hybrid and C-MAX Energi plug-in hybrid ( earlier post ), which begin production next year. This allows it to run in electric mode before using the gasoline engine.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

(CPI) shortly after GM selected CPI and its parent LG Chem as the provider for the Li-ion batteries for the Extended Range Electric Vehicle (E-REV) Chevy Volt. (GM He served as the chief engineer for the Ford Escape Hybrid from 1998 to 2003 and holds 12 patents. In general, the price of gasoline needs to be above US$3.50/gallon

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2009

The project team unveiled the Sentience research vehicle—based on a Ford Escape Hybrid—at a press launch in early March 2009. The design of the HMI architecture was deliberately intended to accommodate the integration of real-time traffic data in a future implementation. Enhanced Acceleration/Deceleration (EAD).

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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. Plug-in hybrids rely more on electricity; the batteries are charged at night using a standard household outlet.

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Plug-in Plug Washington Fleet 100

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

See also: Electric Auto Assn. On the highway, it runs just like any other Prius, with the gasoline engine doing most of the work -- and the extra batteries kicking in to improve performance at ALL speeds. Two EDrive/EnergyCS prototypes: (100+ mpg plus electricity, 30-mile range, with lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2017

3 B-Cycle gasoline engine is the first example of Volkswagen’s “Rightsizing” strategy—an engine development strategy that looks to for the optimal balance of displacement, output, torque and efficiency based on vehicle class and real-world operating conditions, rather than just seeking to downsize. (As 2017 Ford Escape.

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2018 Engine SUV MPG 314

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

NOVEMBER 27, 2009

Nogales, Arizona Friday, November 27, 2009 Nogales International United States Census 2010 Electric hybrid ‘car of the future’ visits Nogales area By Denise HolleyPublished Friday, November 27, 2009 10:03 AM MST Retired Sgt. This enables the car to run much longer on electricity, Asher said in an interview.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 20, 2009

Kelley Blue Book have today named the 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid and 2009 Ford Escape Hybrid in its 2009 list of the “Top 10 Green Cars.”. This recognition says strong things about Ford as a hybrid manufacturer,” said Jack R. 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid. Nerad says the Ford Fusion is “getting better with age.”.

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Plug In Partners

OCTOBER 8, 2007

Ford to bring back ESCORT in 2010 with 100 mpg Hybrid Next Energy News Sept. 2007 Ford Motor Company has embarked on a bold mission to bring back the Escort name in a revolutionary new Plug-in Hybrid vehicle. Ford is invested in the U.S. The new batteries are expected to have a life of 10 years and 150,000 miles. Join Us today.

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