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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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Hyundai invests more in Georgia to produce hybrids

Teslarati

Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) accounted for 4.5% Ford postponed EV launches to focus on hybrid production. During its recent earnings call, however, Tesla reiterated its stance that EVs are the future of the automobile industry. trillion won (US$2.5 of its total shipment in the first quarter, down 6.5% from a year ago.

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Toshiba to supply inverters for Fords HEVs and PHEVs from 2012

Green Car Congress

The Ford Motor Company has selected Toshiba Corporation to supply automotive inverters for hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV). Ford plans to start mass production of new models of both kinds of vehicle in 2012. The automotive inverters will be supplied to Ford with the motors as a set.

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Protean Electric introduces production in-wheel motor at SAE World Congress; 25% increase in peak torque

Green Car Congress

Fuel economy improvements up to 30% in hybrid configurations, as compared to the existing vehicle, depending on battery size.

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ColognE-Mobil 2-Year EV Field Trial to Launch in January; 25 Ford BEVs

Green Car Congress

The ColognE-Mobil large-scale battery electric vehicle (BEV) field trial in Germany will launch on 4 January 2010, bringing together four partners—the Ford-Werke GmbH, RheinEnergie AG, the city of Cologne and the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE)—in a project to test electrical mobility in all its aspects under everyday conditions.

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Feature: Top 6 Reasons Why an EV Is the Right Choice

Clean Fleet Report

With more users gearing towards purchasing electric vehicles, a surge in demand has drastically hit the electric automobile industry. Many of the new batch of EVs have batteries that can charge up to 80 percent in 30 minutes or less. Road Trip: 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E EV. Electric Vehicles are Affordable.

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Letting in the Light

Electric Auto Association

I took some surplus parts and motorcycle batteries… it was definitely Rube Goldberg style,” Smith explained. It was like the early days of the automobile industry when everything was so scattered,” Smith explained. LEV manufacturing and distribution were very disorganized back then.

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