The Truth About Cars
JUNE 8, 2023
Other dimensions of the Mark VIII were larger in all directions, a stark contrast to the extreme downsizing implemented on Mark VI, a measure pushed further by the tidy proportions of the Mark VII.& Further British usage included the Invicta S1 , a badly made sports luxury coupe offered between 2004 and 2012.
Green Car Congress
MAY 12, 2014
The CAM/PwC study highlighted such optimization measures as downsizing in combination with turbocharging and cylinder deactivation. The innovations must be already available or they must at least have been presented in developed prototypes. Dr. Stefan Bratzel, who founded the institute in April 2004. Conventional drives.
Green Car Congress
MAY 20, 2009
The “downsize and boost” strategy provides consumers better fuel economy without sacrificing the power for driving performance. A V-6 EcoBoost engine will be available for the F-150 in 2010. The first EcoBoost engine in the family—the 3.5-liter Cleveland Engine Plant No. 1 opened in 1951 as Ford’s first engine plant in Ohio.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 11, 2010
US small car sales—combined B- and C-segments—grew from about 14% of the market in 2004 to more than 21% now. “People downsize cars, not expectations. Customers are increasingly making decisions to downsize driven by lifestyle and fuel economy. Ford’s “Focus” on the C-Segment.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 17, 2011
two split pairs) operating in a 2004 Chevrolet Cavalier would consume 25% less fuel under the FTP (Federal Test Procedure) than the comparable standard gasoline engine, while matching power and torque. With turbocharging, we can have some huge gains, we can downsize the engine and produce very big power. —Sal Scuderi.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 20, 2009
The more efficient combustion engine technologies, with their enabling of downsizing, come in compatibly with hybridization, with hybridization and electrification playing a larger role over time. Ford planners concluded that the most impactful thing they could do in the short term was to leverage currently available technology.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. Several dozen prototypes on 15-passenger van since 2004; now in second generation development; no production plans. We hope Ford will, and then move ahead!
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