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KPMG survey finds global auto execs ranking fuel efficiency the top consumer priority

Green Car Congress

The 2011 KPMG survey also finds the auto industry heavily investing in future technology, new products and safety improvements. When asked to predict global market share winners over the next five years, Ford jumped to 43% seeing market share gains compared with 29% in 2010 and 13% in 2009. Investments.

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Tech: Autonomous Vehicles Are Going to Require a New Brain

Clean Fleet Report

Waymo minivans are already driverless. Preparing for the Cultural Shift with Neural Manufacturing. The autonomous vehicle (AV) market is undeniably growing at an exponential rate. Neural Manufacturing in Context. As it stands in for the driver, an AV operates in a connected world.

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President Obama Announces 48 Projects to Receive $2.4B in Grants for Next-Generation of Batteries and Electric Vehicles; To be Combined with $2.4B in Industry Cost-Share

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Industry officials expect that this $2.4 billion in cost-share from the award winners, will result directly in the creation tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs in the US battery and auto industries. Ford Motor Company. Develop, validate, and deploy 220 advanced plug-in hybrid electric pickups and minivans.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Ford Escape PHEV-40 around 2012. Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) Mazda Ford Partner was reported to be developing Series PHEV based on Mazda 5 MPV platform. Establishing dealer network.

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