Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2012

Ford Motor Company is partnering with Dow Automotive Systems, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company, to research the use of advanced carbon fiber composites in high-volume vehicles. Reducing weight will benefit the efficiency of every Ford vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2023

The GMC HUMMER EV EarthCruiser upfit by EarthCruiser features: A carbon fiber EarthCruiser house fully integrated into the chassis of the GMC HUMMER EV Pickup. Ford F-150 Lightning Platinum Black Edition. In Q2 2023, Ford reported sales of 4,466 F-150 Lightnings. Reservations for HUMMER EV are currently full.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2013

Plasan Carbon Composites (PCC), a supplier of carbon fiber solutions to the automotive industry and a subsidiary of composites solutions pioneer Plasan Sasa, Inc, has partnered with Toray Industries to bring additional material and technology capabilities and solutions to its automotive and commercial customers.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 6, 2023

I have a soft spot for Bullitt Mustangs, and this 2008 Ford Mustang Bullitt that comes to us by way of New Mexico has piqued my interest. It has a salvage title, so that raises a red flag, but the seller claims to have all the necessary CarFax info and that there was no airbag deployment. There are more -- you can see the full list here.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 30, 2023

Today's used car of the day is a 2016 Ford Focus RS that calls to the boy racer in all of us. Inside, the car gets upgrades like a carbon-fiber gauge bezel and ceramic window tint. There are about 35K miles on the clock and this car has 18-inch wheels, Michelin tires, and a manual transmission. Click here to check it out.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 29, 2024

It’s a bit of a shame that I didn’t have a chance to take the 2023 Ford F-150 Raptor R I tested off road. Ford’s performance team does get props – as much as this truck is meant to jump sand dunes, it’s not terribly punishing to drive in the big city. Here’s how Ford sets it all up. Images: Ford] Become a& TTAC insider.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2023

EV charging manufacturer Autel Energy will showcase a $350,000 electrified classic 1969 Ford Bronco in its booth at CES. The custom Bronco SUV features a carbon fiber body and has been fully electrified with a 600-horsepower, dual-motor propulsion system featuring a 100-kWh battery and 235-plus miles of all-electric range.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

At SEMA, Ford and Webasto revealed Mustang Lithium, an ultra-high-performance battery electric Mustang fastback prototype. Ford has made no secret of the fact that we are electrifying our most popular nameplates. —Hau Thai-Tang, Ford’s Chief Product Development and Purchasing Officer. Ford is investing more than $11.5

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Baua Electric

APRIL 18, 2024

Hyundai taps Toray for new EV materials Hyundai Motor announced a strategic partnership with Toray Industries on Thursday, a leader in carbon fiber and composite material tech. For example, Toray is working with California-based Joby Aviation to use carbon fiber on its upcoming all-electric air taxi.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 18, 2024

Hyundai taps Toray for new EV materials Hyundai Motor announced a strategic partnership with Toray Industries on Thursday, a leader in carbon fiber and composite material tech. For example, Toray is working with California-based Joby Aviation to use carbon fiber on its upcoming all-electric air taxi.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2014

Ford Lightweight Concept. Ford Motor Company unveiled its Lightweight Concept vehicle, which uses advanced materials to explore future weight-reduction solutions that could improve performance and fuel efficiency while reducing CO 2 emissions. —Raj Nair, Ford group vice president, Global Product Development.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2018

Lightning Systems, a global developer of efficiency and emissions improvement solutions for fleets, announced that it is on schedule for March deliveries of its new battery-electric LightningElectric conversion system for Ford Transit. Ford’s vehicle warranty covers the base chassis for vehicles with the Lightning conversions.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2015

Ford will return to Le Mans in 2016 with the all-new Ford GT supercar ( earlier post ) to compete in the LM GTE Pro class, commemorating the 50 th anniversary of Ford’s 1966 overall victory. The new Ford GT race car for WEC and Le Mans competition unveiled today at Le Mans, France. Click to enlarge.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 21, 2023

Ford, which has been fielding entrants since the Peak’s first event in 1916, is taking to the hill this year in their SuperVan 4.2, Officially known at the time as the Ford Pro Electric SuperVan, it was said to have a few more horsepower than this latest iteration whilst packing a full roll cage and FIA-spec racing seats.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 25, 2023

The 2024 Ford Bronco lineup become respectable, an electrical 2025 Genesis GV90 prototype started crowd checking out, and the GMC Hummer EV EarthCruiser previewed electrical overlanding. The 2024 Ford Bronco lineup shuffled because the bottom type disappears and the Large Bend turns into the access level.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 15, 2015

It seems carbon fiber is starting to show up everywhere in cars to cut weight, with wheels being one of the latest examples. There are already some aftermarket carbon-fiber wheels available, but now Ford will offer them as standard equipment on its sportiest new Mustang model--the Shelby GT350R.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Dow Automotive Systems, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company, is the structural adhesives supplier for the 2015 Ford F-150, which launched in November. BETAMATE 1630 enables the use of dissimilar substrates, such as carbon fiber composites with aluminum or light-weight steel, to achieve a weight savings of 70 – 100 kg per vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2013

The CEMI announcement was made at the ribbon cutting of the Department’s Carbon Fiber Technology Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a new advanced manufacturing facility to reduce the cost of carbon fiber. Officials from DOE, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Ford Motor Company, and Dow Chemical launched the facility.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2015

The new institute pairs leading carbon fiber producers and suppliers—such as Materials Innovation Technologies, Harper International, and Strongwell—with key end users such as TPI for wind turbines and Ford, Honda and Volkswagen for automobiles. Adherent Technologies, Inc.; Honda R&D Americas, Inc.;

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2015

The new Ford GT on display in the Ford stand at NAIAS. In December, Ford President and CEO Mark Fields said Ford would focus on five key areas of innovation, one of them being performance. Ford’s electric drive vehicle sales. Ford has been selling hybrids and, later plug-ins, since 2004. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2012

These projects include the development and validation of modeling tools to deliver higher performing carbon fiber composites and advanced steels, as well as research into new lightweight, high-strength alloys for energy-efficient vehicle and truck engines. Fiber Thermoplastic Composites. carbon fiber thermoplastic composites.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2009

The MOTION’s Dual Powertrain Technology (DPT) delivers a combined 800 hp (597 kW) from a 550 hp (410 kW) modified Ford EcoBoost twin-turbo 3.5 The MOTION features extensive use of carbon fiber composite materials for its monocoque chassis and body. This unique AWD system launches the MOTION to 60 mph in less than 2.5

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

In April 2018 Ford announced all its sedans and coupes would be going away by 2020, except for one–the iconic Mustang. Clean Fleet Report spent a week in the rear-wheel drive 2021 Ford Mustang EcoBoost Premium Fastback, powered by a high-performance turbocharged 2.3-liter The 2021 Ford Mustang interior has a comfy, retro feel to it.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 19, 2023

Scheduled to go into manufacturing in 2025, the newcomer packs a quad-turbocharged V-12 in a position to spinning to nearly 10,000 rpm, as much as 3 electrical motors, and carbon-fiber development that extends past the passenger cellular to the entrance and rear subframes.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

An Advanced Meso-Scale Peridynamic Modeling Technology Using High Performance Computing for Cost-Effective Product Design and Testing of Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites in Light-Weight Vehicles – Ford Motor Company (Dearborn, MI) will improve the prediction of crash response of carbon composites in auto parts.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2011

Ford is focused on lightweighting as a key enabling technology for lowering fuel consumption in combustion-engined vehicles (ICE) and for extending the range—and the size—of battery electric vehicles (EVs). At a media dinner with other Ford executives, including Ford Executive Chairman Bill Ford Jr.;

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2011

DOE’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, in collaboration with Ford Motor Company, Lincoln Composites, Toray Carbon Fibers America, Inc. The project will focus on improving carbon fiber composite materials and the design and manufacture of hydrogen storage tanks. and AOC Inc.,

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 24, 2024

Ram claims a water-fording depth of up to 32 inches. Inside, there are upscale materials, custom badging (including one with the VIN), heated and cooled leather seats with suede inserts, carbon-fiber accents, a floor shifter, and paddle shifters. Translation: If you bottom out after a jump, the truck should be able to handle it.

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Teslarati

APRIL 20, 2022

The vehicle is also the only Model 3 trim to come with Performance Brakes, 20″ Überturbine Wheels, a Carbon Fiber Spoiler, and Aluminum Alloy Pedals. Additionally, the Ford Mustang Mach-E has been chosen for several police departments in the United States and Europe.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2016

The GLC F-CELL features a ~9 kWh lithium-ion battery pack combined with a new fuel cell stack developed in Vancouver, Canada together with partner Ford in the Automotive Fuel Cell Cooperation (AFCC) joint venture. Two carbon-fiber-encased tanks built into the vehicle floor hold around 4 kg of hydrogen. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2013

Wallington at Ford Motor’s Systems Analytics and Environmental Sciences Department set out to clarify the lifecycle benefits of vehicle lightweighting in a meta-analysis of previously published life cycle assessments (LCAs). Hyung Chul Kim and Timothy J. Values below 1 indicate that lightweighting decreases the life cycle energy use.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2012

Ford and Toyota are collaborating as equal partners on the development of an advanced new rear-wheel drive hybrid system for light trucks and SUVs. BMW has a track record of developing bodies made from carbon fiber. Toyota already provides hybrid technologies to Mazda Motor. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

Ford Motor Company. Ford Motor Company. This project will develop a novel low cost route to carbon fiber using a lignin/PAN hybrid precursor and carbon fiber conversion technologies leading to high performance, low-cost carbon fiber. Plasan Carbon Composites. drop-in replacement fuels).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2016

While battery-electric vehicles, super-light carbon fiber composites, and hydrogen fuel cells will all be available, a new report from Lux Research has concluded that micro-hybrids will provide the most economical route—$1,700 additional average vehicle cost—to meet aggressive fuel efficiency targets in 2025: 54.5

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 16, 2023

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2015

The first version of the Polimotor, based on the Ford 2.3L Mustang engine, used a combination of carbon fiber, Torlon, epoxy, ceramic and metal. The engine block, cylinder head, valve spring retainers, timing gear intake valves and several other parts were made of fiber reinforced composites (FRCs). liter Duratec engine.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

This project will utilize a systems approach to design and demonstrate an ultra-lightweight carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic composites door assembly through the integration of unique designs, novel materials, and manufacturing technologies and joining/assembly of subsystems. Ford Motor. Area of Interest 3).

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