Green Car Congress
JULY 20, 2016
Ford Motor Company is teaming up with Jose Cuervo to explore the use of the tequila producer’s blue agave plant fiber byproduct to develop more sustainable bioplastics to employ in Ford vehicles. Ford is using about 20% fiber to reinforce its plastics. The growth cycle of the agave plant is a minimum seven-year process.
Cars That Think
MARCH 18, 2022
Starting this year, thousands of battery-powered electric drive Volkswagen vehicles capable of both loading and offloading current—bidirectional charging, as industry calls it—have been rolling off production lines in eastern Germany. There’s still a lack of interoperability,” he says. “So Not so independent.
The Truth About Cars
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
On our never-ending quest to improve this place by listening to feedback from the B&B, we are taking a new tack with these product posts, choosing instead to focus on items we use and have purchased with our own meager income. Even if the pack was fully charged, it would not awaken to provide juice to the car in question. &
The Truth About Cars
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Our presenters are challenged to see if they can complete this partial route of a thing that doesn’t exist anymore in production convertibles which have been modified by unseen experts somewhere. The complicated V12 Aston is from the Ford era but is also of an earlier archaic electronics era, a troublesome combination.
EV Match
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
And with EVmatch’s reservation software, employees can easily schedule their workplace charging sessions at specific times, minimizing any negative impacts on workday productivity. V2L is currently included on EVs such as the Hyundai Ioniq 5, Ford F-150 Lightning, and Rivian R1T. V2H is currently included on the Ford F-150 Lightning.
Cars That Think
MARCH 11, 2023
AeroVironment had encouraged its engineers to take creative initiative in developing the Impact, but GM tightly managed efforts to translate the idiosyncratic car into a production prototype, which rankled Cocconi and Rippel. The result was a demonstration project, a task organized by Alec Brooks , manager of ACP’s tzero production.
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. In the UK, experiments are.
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