Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2014

Ford Fusion Hybrid automated research vehicle with four LiDAR sensors. Ford’s automated Fusion Hybrid research vehicle uses the same technology already in Ford vehicles in dealer showrooms, then adds four LiDAR sensors to generate a real-time 3D map of the vehicle’s surrounding environment. Click to enlarge. —Greg Stevens.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Fontinalis Partners was co-founded by Bill Ford, Executive Chairman of the Ford Motor Company. Highland Electric Transportation is headquartered in Hamilton, Massachusetts, neighboring its first customer, the City of Beverly. —Chris Cheever, Founder and Partner at Fontinalis.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 24, 2024

Regional Sales Insights While California remains a stronghold for electric vehicle sales, there is notable growth in the East Coast markets, particularly in Massachusetts, New York, and Maryland. This geographical expansion of EV sales indicates a nationwide shift towards electric mobility.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2016

Ford Motor Company and MIT are collaborating on a new research project that measures how pedestrians move in urban areas to improve certain public transportation services, such as ride-hailing and point-to-point shuttles services. —Ken Washington, vice president of Research and Advanced Engineering at Ford.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Prabhakar Patil, former CEO, LG Chem Power, and Chief Engineer of Hybrid Technologies, Ford Motor Company. Prior to joining LGCPI in 2005, Dr. Patil spent 27 years of his professional career at Ford Motor Company in various engineering and management positions. Dr. Patil previously served as CEO of LG Chem Power (LGCPI) for 10 years.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2013

Ford Motor Company is developing a new form of manufacturing technology—rapid freeform sheet metal forming—that has the potential to reduce costs and delivery time for sheet metal parts needed in smaller quantities. The F3T sheet metal forming process is one of many advanced manufacturing technologies under development at Ford.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2015

Ford has opened its new Research and Innovation Center Palo Alto, growing its global research team and accelerating the company’s work in connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, customer experience and big data. At Ford, we view ourselves as both a mobility and an auto company, as we drive innovation in every part of our business.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2011

The AMP will be led by Andrew Liveris, Chairman, President, and CEO of Dow Chemical, and Susan Hockfield, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This is a highly valuable digital design tool usually unavailable to smaller firms.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 12, 2021

All good things are worth waiting for, and the timing is eerily perfect for the Lightning, Ford's new electric version of the F-150 pickup.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 31, 2014

Today on Green CarReports: Texas turns friendly to electric cars, we update our Ford hybrid guide, and Massachusetts plans to push plug-in cars too. All this and more on Green Car Reports. The NHTSA closed its probe into Tesla Model S fires, saying a "defect was not identified."

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The State of Maine has voted "yes" to Question 4, which mimics the right-to-repair legislation that passed in Massachusetts three years earlier. Maine residents voted to approve the measure by roughly 84 percent and will now have laws in place akin to what we’ve seen in Massachusetts and several other states.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 28, 2012

Well, that's not particularly good news: Azure Dynamics, the company that converted a handful of Ford Transit Connect small commercial vans to electric power, filed for bankruptcy on Monday. It laid off about 120 employees at a variety of locations in MIchigan, Massachusetts, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2016

Kiessling Transit, a Massachusetts-based transportation company, is ordering 32 more hydraulic hybrid buses equipped with Lighting Hybrids’ Energy Recovery System (ERS) for medium- and heavy-duty trucks and buses. Kiessling Transit Ford E-450 paratransit bus with Lightning Hybrids system installed. Earlier post.) Click to enlarge.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 22, 2014

After unveiling an automated Ford Fusion Hybrid research vehicle one month ago, Ford has continued to show its backing for the new technology by throwing its weight behind a new project with Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Latest News Green cars Ford'

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2013

National Fleet Hybrids received a demonstration bus with the Lightning Hybrids system installed, a Ford E-450 shuttle bus, last week. It is available for test drives and was showcased at the Massachusetts Clean Cities Coalition meeting on 13 June in Boston at the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

The company’s system demonstrated improvements of 30% in fuel efficiency and significantly reduced NO x emissions during a year-long pilot program with the leading Massachusetts-based transportation company. Kiessling Transit will use the hybrid vehicles to transport primarily urban-area Massachusetts residents with disabilities.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Lightning Hybrids’ hydraulic hybrid system on the vehicle, featuring a Ford F59 chassis and Morgan Olson Route Star walk-in van body, enhances fuel efficiency while significantly reducing emissions. Additional states that offer grants and funding for Lightning Hybrids’ systems include Colorado, Maryland and Massachusetts, among others.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 21, 2024

Meanwhile, Rivian’s electric 7-seater, the R1S, was the seventh best-selling EV in the US last year for a reason, topping the Ford F-150 Lightning and Tesla Model X. It can even has sports car performance with a 0 to 60 mph sprint in as little as 3 seconds. As of January, Rivian offered leasing in 15 states.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The United States Advanced Battery Consortium LLC (USABC), a collaborative organization of FCA US LLC, Ford Motor Company and General Motors, has awarded $1.08 million to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Massachusetts for Phase II of a lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery recycling contract.

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Teslarati

MARCH 20, 2023

Six states, including New York, New Jersey, Vermont, Oregon, Washington state, and Massachusetts, are expected to follow California’s lead and implement these regulations as well. Perhaps the most significant part of the California regulations is their effect on vehicles outside the state. What do you think of the article?

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2013

Green Button Gamer , based in Boston, Massachusetts, won the Safety Innovation award and Augusta, Georgia-based Fuel Economy Coach received the Fuel Efficiency Innovation award. DOE awarded New York City-based Dash the Judges’ Prize and MyCarma , headquartered in Troy, Michigan, the Popular Choice prize.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 24, 2023

” Tesla and Rivian aren’t contributors of the alliance, which represents automakers corresponding to Common Motors, Ford, Toyota and Volkswagen. . “The commitment aligns with Tesla’s mission and our focus on supporting our customer’s rights while protecting their safety and security.”

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Some of the industry leaders attending the conference include Ford (attending remotely), Swiss company LafargeHolcim, Garmin International, Caterpillar Inc., Those universities are South Dakota State University in Brookings, University of South Dakota in Vermillion and Northeastern University in Massachusetts.

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EV Adoption

MAY 1, 2022

While California, District of Columbia, and Oregon are no surprise to occupy top positions in EV sales share charts, four New England states — Vermont (2.7%), Maine (2.3%), Massachusetts (2.2%), and Connecticut (2.1%) — coming in at the number 4-7 slot is interesting. Looking for more sales and sales share data by state for 2021.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2014

Lightning Hybrids tested two vehicles: a 2013 Ford E450 6.8-liter The essence is to replace a diesel-powered GMC 4500 shuttle with gasoline Ford E450s upfitted with the Lightning Hybrids system. liter V10 and a 2010 GMC 3500 Savana Cutaway 6.0-liter

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

This includes everything from battery and drivetrain production facilities to battery cell manufacturing plants to, today, a deal to establish a battery recycling and recuperation deal with a recycler in Massachusetts. But as other legacy brands, notably Ford, have shown, that is easier said than done.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 1, 2023

The 3 retail outlets are a part of Grieco Car Team, which has alternative retail outlets promoting Acura, BMW, Chevrolet, Ford, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz and Nissan and in addition has places in California, Florida and Massachusetts. Mike Grieco Jr., CEO, was once a 2013 Car Information 40 below 40 honoree.

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Get Electric Vehicle

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Factorial Energy, a Massachusetts-based developer of solid-state battery technology, announced cooperation with Hyundai Motor Co. Factorial is a company based in Woburn, Massachusetts, just outside of Boston and this is Factorial’s first large automobile strategic investment. and Kia Corp last week. First Time For Factorial.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2012

a company that has developed a low-cost hybrid electric powertrain designed specifically for class 1-3 commercial fleet use ( earlier post ), will display a Chevrolet Express 2500 cargo van fitted with the company’s hybrid technology at the 2012 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Energy Conference Energy Showcase on 16 March.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

A few years ago, Martin Ford published a book called Architects of Intelligence , in which he interviewed 23 of the most experienced AI and robotics researchers in the world. Beyond the financial limits of scaling to ever larger neural networks, there are also important environmental considerations.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2017

Lightning Systems has received orders from customers in Alaska, Colorado, Illinois, and Massachusetts, as well as around the world in India and the United Kingdom. Lightning Systems was recently named an Advanced Fuel Qualified Vehicle Modifier (QVM) by Ford Motor Company.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Consortium participants include Sandia and Argonne national laboratories; the University of Massachusetts at Amherst; Toyota Motor Corp.; Renault; Convergent Science; Cummins; Hino Motors; Isuzu; and Ford Motor Co.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

The announcement of another $12.5 million to a third winning consortium focused on building energy efficiency will be made this fall.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 28, 2023

In March, Senator Markey of Massachusetts surveyed 20 car manufacturers and found that 8 of them –BMW, Ford, Mazda, Polestar, Rivian, Tesla, Volkswagen, and Volvo—had removed AM radios from their EVs. Ford had also intended to remove the radios from its gas cars in 2024, but recently reversed course on that decision.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

Furthermore, leading automotive companies such as Toyota, Ford, Honda, BMW etc., There is also the Open Innovation Labs, encouraged by players like Honda which has set up an open innovation lab for R&D in connected vehicles, the Volkswagen’s Electronics Research Lab and GM’S advanced technology lab in the Silicon Valley.

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EV Connect

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Mainstream manufacturers such as Ford and GM are already unveiling their own EV lines, alongside emerging brands such as Lucid and Nikola. Several other states, including Massachusetts and New York, are expected to follow suit. That burden is no longer carried by Tesla, which currently produces around 1.8 million cars a year.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2009

The vehicles are 23-foot, gasoline-powered hybrid electric cutaway buses using the StarTrans Senator bus body, Ford E450 chassis, and the Azure Dynamics Balance parallel electric hybrid system with the Ford 5.4L StarTrans also manufactures buses on their newest platform, the Balance Hybrid Drive, which utilizes the Ford E450 chassis.

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