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Road Test: 2022 Lincoln Corsair PHEV Grand Touring AWD

Clean Fleet Report

The Environmental Protection Agency rates the Corsair’s fuel economy at 33 mpg highway and combined when running in hybrid mode only. Fuel economy numbers reported by Clean Fleet Report are non-scientific and represent the reviewer’s driving experience using the dash gauge computer. kilowatt-hours/kWh).

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Ford Investing $550M to Retool SUV Plant to Produce Focus Small Car and EV

Green Car Congress

To produce the vehicles, Ford is converting three truck and SUV plants to car plants—Michigan Assembly, Cuautitlan Assembly in Mexico, which begins building the new Fiesta subcompact early next year; and Louisville (Ky.) It is about fuel economy and the electrification of vehicles.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GMs program relies on lithium-ion battery technology that Gioia called "cost, weight and package prohibitive." USA Today ) 7/27/06 Ford would not sell a plug-in hybrid unless it could guarantee that the battery would last as long as current hybrid batteries do, said [Mike Tamor, executive for hybrid and fuel cell research at Ford]. "I

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