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Ford adding hybrid F-150 & Mustang, PHEV Transit, new BEV SUV by 2020; $700M for Flat Rock for EV production; cancels $1.6B Mexico plant

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Ford is focusing its EV plan on its areas of strength—electrifying its most popular, high-volume commercial vehicles, trucks, SUVs and performance vehicles to make them even more capable, productive and fun to drive. A high-volume autonomous vehicle designed for commercial ride hailing or ride sharing, starting in North America.

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Cuba Jamming Ham Radio? Listen For Yourself

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Cuba has a long history of interfering with broadcast signals , with several commercial radio stations in Florida allowed to operate at higher than normal power levels to combat jamming. Valladres explains he escaped from Cuba to the United States in a raft in 2005.

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Burlington Hydro Takes Delivery of First EV in Commercial Fleet Application in Canada

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Ontario, Canada) has taken delivery of the first all-electric vehicle to be used in a commercial fleet application in Canada—the REV 300 ACX (a retrofit Ford Escape). The company serves more than 58,500 residential customers, and approximately 5,500 commercial and industrial customers. Click to enlarge. Burlington Hydro Inc.

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Main Page - EAA-PHEV

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Were a group of entrepreneurs, engineers, environmentalists and consumers promoting high-efficiency, low-emission cars and harnessing buyer demand to help commercialize plug-in hybrids. Somewhat uniquely, we focus both on public policy and technology development.

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DLR and partners inaugurate largest solar-thermochemical H2 production plant

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The solar radiation is secondarily focused using a cone with a coating of reflecting material, which increases the efficiency of the process as less heat can escape. Researchers reckon that it will be at least a few years before the procedure is ready for the market and for commercial applications. Resources. Cotelli, A. Houaijia, M.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. Ford Escape PHEV-40 around 2012. First Escape PHEV delivered to SCE Nov 2007; 20 in 2008-2009. First Escape PHEV delivered to SCE Nov 2007; 20 in 2008-2009.

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CalCars and PHEVs Frequently Asked Questions

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

For more on plug-in hybrids and V2G, see CalCars Resources , University of Delaware V2G Research Center , and papers from a June 2005 conference in Seattle. DaimlerChrysler is using them in some of its prototype PHEV Sprinter commercial vans. We expect that EVs will return to the market after PHEVs are commercialized.

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