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.
CleanTechnica EVs
JUNE 14, 2021
In Southern Africa, people in South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe experience regular and in some instances prolonged outages as the power companies in the respective countries fail to […]. Nations in these parts of the world currently face sharply contrasting situations in the electricity sector.
Teslarati
MAY 8, 2024
The BYD Shark was pitted against electric vehicles like the Tesla Cybertruck and the Ford F-150 Lightning. BYD’s PHEV is expected to launch first in right-hand-drive markets, like Australia and South Africa. The company established its brand in Australia with the Dolphin and Seal EVs.
Baua Electric
APRIL 22, 2024
BYD is launching its first electric pickup soon after confirming it will go by the name “Shark” in its latest teaser, revealing a Ford F-150 Lightning look up front. It also showed the pickup’s Ford F-150 Lightning -like full-length light bar and stacked headlights. A new electric pickup is coming to global markets.
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
Green Car Congress
JULY 21, 2011
Ford has begun production of the Focus at its Vsevolozhsk Plant near St. The new Ford Focus will be assembled in Russia in all three body styles: four-door, five-door and wagon. To date, more than 500,000 Ford Focus units have been sold in Russia. Petersburg, Russia.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 2, 2011
The Figo ( earlier post ) helped Ford India increase sales for the first five months of 2011 by 71%, compared to the same period last year, with 51,420 wholesale units sold, including exports, from January to May 2011. In May, Ford India sold more than 9,000 wholesale units—7,046 domestically, and more than 2,000 exported.
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