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Ford and Portland General Electric Partner to Prepare Region for EVs

Green Car Congress

Ford Motor Company and Portland General Electric will collaborate to help prepare the city of Portland and the Pacific Northwest for the operation of electric vehicles. PGE is partnering with state and local government, higher education, the automobile industry, and businesses to expand the electric vehicle infrastructure in Oregon.

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Non-intrusive bio-monitoring system anticipates driver fatigue in the vehicle to prevent accidents

Green Car Congress

The approach is similar in concept to technologies Ford described as part of its release of the S-MAX Concept ( Earlier post.) Glucose Level Monitoring connects with Ford SYNC could warn parents if a sleeping child in the rear seats suffers a diabetic episode. Partners also include Fico Mirrors, S.A.,

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Moore’s Not Enough: ?4 New Laws of Computing

Cars That Think

I teach technology and information systems courses at Northeastern University in Boston. Certainly, the phenomenon of scalability was well known in the automobile industry before it made a significant impact on the computing industry. Henry Ford was a notable example of the the application of this scalability law.

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Electric Vehicles to Orchestrate the Soundscape of the Future

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Now I believe the entire automobile industry is in such a phase because the recent influx of electric vehicles into our roads is making our roads quieter a lot quieter than we anticipated. Audi, Ford and Jaguar are few to name who has taken this path. For me, the noise of the moving vehicle was the primary sign that I am moving.

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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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