2004 Available Downsizing International 
Green Car Congress
MAY 12, 2014
The CAM/PwC study highlighted such optimization measures as downsizing in combination with turbocharging and cylinder deactivation. Geely International Corp.; 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.
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. To ensure quality is built into the engine from the outset, Ford developed a new, internal database for its operations. liter V-8 family.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 11, 2010
The next-generation Ford Focus 5-door hatchback, revealed at the 2010 North American International Auto Show. Ford unveiled its strategically important next-generation Ford Focus in both four-door sedan and five-door hatchback styles at the 2010 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit. Click to enlarge.
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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