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Ford Reaches Definitive Agreement to Sell Volvo Cars and Related Assets to Geely

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At the press conference Sunday afternoon (CET). Left to right: Stephen Odell, CEO of Volvo Cars; Li Shufu, chairman of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Company Limited; Lewis Booth, Ford’s chief financial officer. Tags: China Market Background Vehicle Manufacturers. Click to enlarge. Volvo is Volvo and Geely is Geely. —Li

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Fords View on Electrification Enablers; Looking for Battery Commonization

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Prior to his current position, Tinskey led Ford’s product planning and product management activities for hybrids and for developing and implementing the electric vehicle strategy announced last January ( earlier post ). But we definitely have this in mind as a long-term goal. Ford’s product approach to electrification.

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EVs All The Way Down: EV Tractors At Ford's Michigan Plant

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This campaign has moved onto twitter as a viral marketing event on the #iamloved tag. This is not specifically elearning - but again your mileage may vary, your definition may vary. Virual Immersive Environments There are several other technologies: bookmarking tagging etc Coming up with one more story and my favourite one.

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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

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The morning session started out with an hour long press conference, the highlight being the unveiling of the Volt’s 230 mpg preliminary EPA city fuel economy finding ( earlier post ), as well as a tour showing selected elements from the studios of the four GM North American brands: Chevrolet, GMC, Buick and Cadillac.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Ford Escape PHEV-40 around 2012. Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) Mazda Ford Partner was reported to be developing Series PHEV based on Mazda 5 MPV platform. Establishing dealer network.

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GM, Segway partner on two-wheel city vehicle | Green Tech - CNET News

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Topics: Deals and investments , Transportation Tags: GM , Segway , city transportation , 2009 New York auto show Share: Digg Del.icio.us Has GM Ford or Chylser heard about this. This is a definite Lemming device. Tags: evdriven. He started at CNET News in 2002, covering IT and Web development. E-mail Martin. Video Web 2.0

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

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If the EV1 was viable (or even close) we would see Ford, Toyota, Honda, etc all with 80 mile cars right now.do Posted by: Driver | Apr 14, 2009 4:32:54 PM The demise of GM - Ford - Chrysler - SELF INFLICTED! Tags: evdriven. Sorry the market killed the EV1. you see that? I cant stand all these "GM killed the electric car" crap.

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