Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2016

A new Ford Motor Company pilot program aims to enhance mobility health services in rural areas of South Africa and Nigeria. The services will be accessed using enhanced mobility and connectivity technologies from Ford vehicles. —Bill Ford, executive chairman. Mobility and electrification.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2013

Ford has reduced the average amount of water used to make each of its vehicles by 8.5% between 2011 and 2012—putting the company more than halfway toward its current goal of using an average of 4 cubic meters per vehicle globally by 2015. Silverton Assembly Plant (South Africa): Began using a $2.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2014

Ford launched its Innovate Mobility Challenge Serie s, inviting the developer and maker communities to come together to find innovative mobility solutions in eight different locations around the world. For each competition, Ford will partner with local authorities and experts to address different issues in each location.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2010

Ford is opening 66 new dealerships in China by the end of the year. Ford will have added 100 new dealerships in China in 2010, bringing its total number of outlets here to 340. It’s all about growth—for Ford, for our partners and most importantly, growth for our customers.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2009

Ford Motor Company officially launched the new Ford Fiesta into the China market on the southern resort island of Hainan. The sedan and the five-door Fiesta hatchback are both built at the Changan Ford Mazda Automobile Company manufacturing facility in Nanjing.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2013

Building capacity for now and for the next generation. Elements of these solution sets were introduced by SMART in a 2006 article entitled “ New Mobility: The Next Generation of Sustainable Urban Transportation ,” in the Bridge Magazine of the National Academy of Engineers. The five themes are: Systems integration. The accessibility paradigm.

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EV Connect

MARCH 8, 2021

South Africa, the European Union and the U.S. Starting in 2017, the Germany-based company IONITY set out to address this problem. A project began in 2016 to build stations all up and down the Queensland coastline. The number of public EV charging stations worldwide passed one million in 2020, making it a landmark year.

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