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Preventing the layout? What a magazine thought

Baua Electric

TO THE EDITOR: The longer one has labored within the car trade, the extra “Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant road-tests a new quality strategy” (autonews.com, Would possibly 1) turns out just like the film Groundhog Date. For lots of car generations, Ford has “reinvented” its solution to detail and production.

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Dow Automotive providing BETAMATE aluminum binding adhesives for Ford F-150

Green Car Congress

Dow Automotive Systems, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company, is the structural adhesives supplier for the 2015 Ford F-150, which launched in November. In 2014, R&D Magazine recognized BETAMATE 1630 as one of the 100 most technologically significant products introduced in the past year.

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Ford F-150 Lightning Production Capacity Set To Triple

Green Fleet Magazine

The Rogue Electric Vehicle Center, after a six-week expansion and retooling shutdown, has resumed production on the F-150 Lightning and the projected numbers have soared.

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Ford's Next Electric Truck Finds Home

Green Fleet Magazine

Ford Motor Company's next-generation electric truck will be built at BlueOval City, where the truck plant on the site will be capable of producing 500,000 electric trucks a year at full production.

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Ford tops 50 Best Global Green Brands list for 2014; Toyota, Honda and Nissan 2nd, 3rd and 4th

Green Car Congress

Automakers took the top four slots in the 50 Best Global Green Brands list for 2014, published by Fortune magazine in conjunction with the consulting firm Deloitte and Interbrand. Ford bumped last year’s leader, Toyota, to take the top spot. Products and Services. Toyota came in second, followed by Honda and Nissan. Volkswagen.

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Opinion: Consumer Reports’ Tesla Autopilot stunt crossed a line in an already-heated EV climate

Teslarati

The magazine was successful in its aim, but it also demonstrated that it takes a very determined driver and an elaborate set of procedures to bypass Tesla’s driver-monitoring systems. . The magazine’s team seemed to have buckled in the driver’s seatbelt without a person sitting in the seat. Only it didn’t.

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Additive manufacturing company Carbon3D named Technology Pioneer by World Economic Forum; work with Ford

Green Car Congress

The new Continuous Liquid Interface Production technology (CLIP) uses a tuneable photochemical process instead of the traditional mechanical approach, eliminating the shortcomings of conventional layer-by-layer 3D printing technology, rapidly to transform 3D models into final parts in a range of engineering-grade materials.