Teslarati

JULY 29, 2022

Ford is now offering (much more than) an electric police truck with the release of the F-150 Lightning Special Service Vehicle, or SSV, as the brand continues to expand its Ford Pro sub-brand. EVs fulfill these tasks perfectly while limiting running costs and reducing emissions. Shoot me an email at william@teslarati.com.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 23, 2021

Ford has doubled the production target for the F-150 Lightning to over 80,000 vehicles annually in 2024. Prior to its revised target, Ford was looking to produce over 40,000 F-150 Lightnings in 2024. The apparent demand for the Ford F-150 Lightning bodes well for the electric vehicle revolution as a whole.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Ford has begun production of the 2014 F-150 with the gaseous fuel prep option, making Ford the only manufacturer with an available CNG/LPG-capable half-ton pickup. The 2014 Ford F-150 with 3.7-liter The Ford F-150 with 3.7-liter F-Series Super Duty pickup and F-350 chassis cab.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2013

CNG Ford F-150. Ford will offer the 2014 F-150 with the ability to run on compressed natural gas, making Ford the only manufacturer in the US with an available CNG/LPG-capable half-ton pickup. The 2014 Ford F-150 with 3.7-liter The 2014 Ford F-150 with 3.7-liter F-650 medium-duty truck.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2015

Ford will offer the 2016 F-150 with an available gaseous-fuel prep package that enables 5.0-liter The 2016 Ford F-150 with 5.0-liter We surveyed customers likely to use natural gas or propane, and 72% told us they want to have these alternative-fuel capabilities available on F-150 with the 5.0-liter

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Teslarati

JANUARY 11, 2024

Ford Pro Insure expanded its insurance offering for commercial vehicles to Indiana and Wisconsin. Besides Indiana and Wisconsin, Ford’s insurance for commercial vehicles is also available in Arizona, Illinois, and Tennessee. The right commercial auto insurance can help them run efficient and productive fleets.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Ford Pro is the global business and brand within Ford dedicated to delivering solutions to government and commercial customers of all sizes to help accelerate productivity, improve uptime and lower operating costs through connected services and work-ready gas and electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2022

PG&E and Ford will test the F-150 Lightning and its Intelligent Backup Power bidirectional charging capabilities in providing backup power for customers’ homes in PG&E’s service area. Through collaborations with automakers like Ford, we are innovating together for a cleaner, safer and brighter future for all.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2020

(ANGP) and Ingevity, the ANG system is made possible by the performance of Ingevity’s Nuchar activated carbon that significantly lowers the natural gas storage pressure, reduces the system’s complexity and captures the environmental benefits and cost savings of natural gas when used as a transportation fuel.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Ford (F) assembled a “super-talented skunk works team” to build a low-cost EV platform. Ford is “secretly” developing a low-cost EV platform Following Tuesday’s Q4 and full-year 2023 earnings results, Farley explained that Ford is adjusting its capital while switching gears to focus on smaller EVs. billion this year.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2021

Ford unveiled the all-electric 2022 F-150 Lightning Pro, a version of the electric F-150 Lightning ( earlier post ) targeted at commercial customers. More than 145 million miles of telematics data show that for the average F-150 commercial customer in the US, 95% of their daily travel is less than 174 miles.

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InsideEVs

MAY 24, 2021

The Extended-Range Battery will cost $10,000 more. It will start at $39,974.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2017

Ford detailed seven of the 13 new global electrified vehicles it plans to introduce in the next five years, including hybrid versions of the iconic F-150 pickup and Mustang in the US, a plug-in hybrid (PHEV) Transit Custom van in Europe and a fully electric SUV with an expected range of at least 300 miles (483 km) for customers globally.

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Electric Vehicles India

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Ford launches new EV charging project for its commercial customers shift to electric . Ford has announced that it is launching a new project that helps its commercial customers to make a shift to electric vehicles. The company’s F-150 lightning electric pickup truck took nearly 3 years of production.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2023

This one-step nitrogen-fixation strategy to produce ammonia is eco-friendly and low cost, which converts widely available starting materials into a value-added product. To break nitrogen’s strong bonds, the Haber-Bosch process requires roughly 80-300 atmospheres of pressure and temperatures around 572-1000 ˚F (300-500 ˚C).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

XL Hybrids will begin production on the new XL3 Hybrid Electric Drive System for Model Year 2018 Ford Super Duty F-250 pickups in first quarter 2018. This will be the first time that Ford F-250 trucks can be ordered by fleet customers with hybrid-electric drive technology; the XL3 system can provide up to a 25% increase in fuel economy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2021

Investing in more battery R&D ultimately will help us speed the process to deliver more, even better, lower cost EVs for customers over time. Ford’s Battery Benchmarking and Test Laboratory, which opened late last year, has 150 test chambers and 325 channels for development work. Experts at the $100-million, 185,000 sq.-ft.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2022

The first products to be manufactured and sold will be available in the US and the UK for the industry’s highest-volume commercial and retail pickups and vans—including the Ford F-150, F-150 Lightning, Transit vans and E-Transit—and will be easily installable by customers to protect expensive work and recreational equipment.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Is Ford shifting its electric vehicle efforts away from large EVs like the F-150 Lightning , and focusing on translating the ethos of the Model T into the EV era? Now this is important because we made a bet in silence two years ago, we developed a super-talented skunkworks team to create a low-cost EV platform,” said Farley. “It

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Rivian’s truck and SUV are two of the more compelling EV options on sale now, but the automaker wants to streamline its operations to increase volume and reduce costs. Many of those challenges appear to be behind Rivian now, as the company is also pushing forward with commercial vehicle deliveries.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 4, 2024

Ford’s F-150 Lightning remained the top-selling electric pickup, with sales up 80% over last year with 7,743 units delivered. As commercial customers continue shifting to electric options, Ford Pro saw EV adoption rise by over 40%. The company said many 2024 F-150 Lightning orders are repeat buyers.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2022

The creation of Ford Model e was informed by the success of small, mission-driven Ford teams that developed the Ford GT, Mustang Mach-E SUV and F-150 Lightning pickup as well as Ford’s dedicated EV division in China. Ford is forming two distinct, but strategically interdependent, auto businesses: Ford Blue and Ford Model e.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2018

That money will go toward: Next-Gen Hybrid Electrics: Part of Ford’s new strategy includes going all-in on hybrids to bring more capability to customers of our most popular and high-volume vehicles like F-150, Mustang, Explorer, Escape and Bronco. liter Power Stroke diesel engine for F-150, updated version of the popular F-150 Raptor.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2020

Using less energy to capture and remove carbon, the material has the potential to reduce the cost of the technology and eventually support commercial applications. The liquid is then heated to 120-150 ?C F) to release the CO 2 gas, after which the liquids are reused. C (250-300 ?F)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2021

In its report of first quarter 2021 financial results and outlook, Lordstown Motors, a startup developing electric light duty trucks focused on the commercial fleet market ( earlier post ), said that the expected production of its Endurance full-size electric pickup in 2021 will be limited—at best 50% of prior expectations.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 30, 2024

Ford Pro will collaborate with global sustainability leaders Ecolab to speed up the electrification of its vehicle fleet, with a goal of transitioning to a 100% fully electric commercial fleet by 2030. Ecolab’s journey towards 100% fleet electrification will begin in California with the conversion of its sales and service fleet to EVs.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

“Ford E-Transit , the electric version of America’s best-selling commercial van 1 and the first of two all-electric vehicles purpose-built for Ford Pro commercial customers, is now shipping across the U.S. Ford is using the moniker Ford Pro to launch forward its commercial and government accounts.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Rapidly improving fitness to lower costs, release capital and finance growth. In the presentation to investors, Ford noted that its costs have grown as fast as its revenue, and that capital spending has grown even faster. Thus, Ford is attacking costs, reducing automotive cost growth by 50% through 2022.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

However, the computer-guided parallel parking feature is supposedly not going to be appearing in future models as a way to help the automaker cut production costs. The F-150 Lightning and the newly launched facelifted Explorer, among other Ford vehicles, currently include the feature, but perhaps not for much longer.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Tesla previously took $150 refundable pre-orders in Australia, but it has since stopped taking them. Rather than utilising a skateboard-style architecture with the battery pack as part of the floor structure Ford simply added batteries and electric motors to the F-150 ladder frame structure.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Starting today, Ford says that eligible Mustang Mach-E and F-150 Lightning owners can request their free CCS to NACS adapter. Today, Ford F-150 Lightning and Mustang Mach-E retail customers are the first of any non-Tesla automaker to gain access to Tesla Superchargers across the U.S. and Canada,” Ford says. and Canada.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2018

Ford Co-Pilot360 will roll out across Ford’s new passenger cars, SUVs and trucks up to F-150 in North America, starting on the new 2019 Ford Edge and Edge ST this fall. Commercial customers can also benefit from Ford’s expansion of driver-assist technologies. Ford will continue to introduce new driver-assist technologies.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2016

A team from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a novel, environmentally friendly low-cost battery. Compared with conventional LIBs, this battery (AGDIB) shows an advantage in production cost (~ 50% lower), specific density (~1.3-2.0 times), and energy density (~1.6-2.8

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2012

ALTe Powertrain Technologies, developer of a range-extended plug-in electric hybrid powertrain for light commercial fleet vehicle applications, and Club Assist, a supplier of mobile, car electric and road services to motoring clubs worldwide, are partnering on a joint development project to study ALTe’s powertrain technology in Club Assist’s fleet.

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Teslarati

JUNE 2, 2022

billion investment and 1,800 union jobs at Ohio Assembly Plant to assemble an all-new EV commercial vehicle starting mid-decade, along with an additional 90 jobs and $100 million investment between Lima Engine and Sharonville Transmission plants. ” Ford F-150 Lightning customer deliveries are beginning.

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

FYI, the safest EV trucks include Rivian R1T and Ford F-150 Lightning, according to the DOT’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the private Institute for Highway Safety. Huge savings on charging costs when compared to the price of fuel. No noise means your EV trucks can enter areas with restrictions on sounds.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 13, 2024

This hydrogen-powered GM commercial truck offers 300 miles of range and “generates enough electricity to power 250 typical American homes” (for a few minutes?). Meaning: can it drive out 150 (ish) miles, provide that power, then drive 150 (ish) miles back? Just not at the same time.

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