Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2014

The MY 2015 Ford F-150 will offer a new high-output, twin-turbo 2.7-liter Due to the extensive lightweighting in the new F-150 ( earlier post ), this will improve the power-to-weight ratio of the 2015 truck by 15% over the 2014 5.0-liter liter V8-equipped F-150 with similar torque output.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2015

Ford Motor Company was the winner of the 3 rd annual Altair Enlighten Award for its use of various lightweight materials to minimize weight of the 2015 Ford F-150. The weight savings help the truck tow more, haul more, accelerate quicker and stop shorter, and it contributes to fuel efficiency. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Reports

JULY 17, 2015

The 2015 Ford F-150 arrived last year with a greater focus on fuel economy than any previous generation of the best-selling full-size pickup truck. Its weight-saving aluminum body and available downsized 2.7-liter liter turbocharged EcoBoost V-6 were meant to increase gas mileage. DON'T MISS.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 16, 2015

Cutting weight can be one of the most effective tactics to increase fuel economy, but it doesn''t necessarily come cheap. The 2015 Ford F-150 pickup, with its aluminum body and bed mounted on a conventional steel frame, represents a huge gamble by Ford on its highest-volume vehicle line.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2014

The 2015 Chevrolet Colorado uses engineering techniques and lightweight materials to create fuel-efficient pickup capability in a mass-efficient mid-size package. The 2015 Colorado 4x4 crew cab, which GM expects to be the most popular version of the new trucks, weighs 880 to 1,400 lbs (363 to 635 kg) less than a full-size truck.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Making a large, heavy vehicle like a pickup truck economical isn''t the easiest of tasks. You can drop in a more efficient engine, of course. But it''ll struggle against poor aerodynamics and ample weight. Ford has done both the first and the third of these, the latter handled by a new aluminum structure.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 2, 2014

It started with a story on how what technologies we expect to be used for the 2015 Ford F-150 to boost its fuel economy from the current 18 mpg combined to 22 mpg combined or higher. MORE: 2014.'

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F-150 Ford MPG Fuel Economy 101

Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

The Ford F-150 SVT Raptor pickup wasn''t designed for fuel economy. DON''T MISS: 2015 Ford F-150 SFE.' It''s a souped up version of the outgoing version of the Ford full-size truck, created solely to cover tough terrain at the fastest speeds possible (and give some street cred to its driver, too).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2015

The Ram Truck brand is adding a new, more fuel-efficient model to its half-ton truck lineup. The new 2015 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel HFE will deliver the highest highway fuel economy (29 mpg) among all current full-size truck competitors—12% higher than the next-closest, the aluminum-bodied 2015 Ford F-150 2WD with 2.7-liter

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 11, 2016

When it introduced the current-generation F-150 half-ton pickup truck for the 2015 model year, one of the major points Ford touted was fuel economy. It claimed the light-duty F-150's aluminum body saved over 700 pounds compared to previous steel body, helping to improve efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2017

This builds on Ford’s earlier commitment to deliver 13 new electrified vehicles in the next five years, including F-150 Hybrid, Mustang Hybrid, Transit Custom plug-in hybrid, an autonomous vehicle hybrid, Ford Police Responder Hybrid Sedan, and a fully electric small SUV.

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Connect Connected Ford F-150 150

Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Here''s a look back at what happened this week on Green Car Reports: With the new 2015 Ford F-150 on the horizon, we laid out what we know so far regarding the new pickup truck''s fuel economy. It may have been a holiday week, but that didn''t stop the green automotive news from erupting.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Steel can easily deliver the weight savings required to meet federally mandated fuel economy targets for most vehicles, according to a new 300-page analysis by the steel-industry information service World Steel Dynamics : “AutoBody Warfare: Aluminum Attack.” Earlier post.). —“AutoBody Warfare”.

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2018 F-150 Industrial Industry 218

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

EcoBoost technology combines smaller overall size with turbocharging, direct injection and variable valve timing to deliver significantly improved performance and fuel economy. Ford says its EcoBoost engines deliver up to 20% better fuel economy than larger-displacement gasoline engines. liter three-cylinder; 1.5-liter,

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Global Ford Engine Diesel 230

Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

TI-VCT varies the phase of the intake and exhaust cams independently for improved airflow through the engine, which delivers more torque while reducing average fuel consumption by up to 5%. The 6-speed dry-clutch automatic transmission delivers a 7-9% fuel economy improvement vs. traditional 4-speed automatic transmissions.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

This fuel economy is encouraging, but it will take a wide open road with little traffic and lots of patience to equal it. If fuel economy is your primary focus and you can live without high performance, the standard turbocharged 2.3L This car begs to be driven with great elan , so real world driving will use more fuel.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2017

kg) per vehicle (PPV) in 2015 to 565 PPV (256.3 To further improve fuel economy, battery range, safety and overall driving performance, automakers no longer default to a single material and instead are pursuing a multi-material design approach where the best material is chosen for the best application. times in five years.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2013

The goals of the current Gen 3 were to: significantly improve the engine’s already good power, torque and fuel efficiency; reduce the weight of the unit, while maintaining at least equivalent comfort attributes; and. to conform to future emissions standards, particularly the stringent EU6 standard which will be mandatory in Europe in 2015.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

The company expects to demonstrate that during an eight hour delivery day simulation this plug-in hybrid vehicle can exceed 150 miles while exhibiting an efficiency of over 75 mpg (miles per gallon). The plug-in hybrid electric vehicle will be driven on a simulated city driving test route. billion to electric vehicle development.

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