Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2013

Ford plug-in hybrid owners are operating in electric mode nearly 60% of the time, according to new aggregate data collected from Ford’s MyFord Mobile app. Ford doesn’t collect information on individual drivers, but aggregates group data so that it can continue to deliver the best possible ownership experience. Noon to 2 p.m.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant is starting production of the 2012 Focus Electric ( earlier post )—a five-passenger, battery-electric car Ford expects will achieve more than a 100 miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe) fuel economy rating. Portland, Ore.; 1 gallon of gasoline=33.7 Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.; Raleigh-Durham, N.C.;

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2015

In the opening keynote at Ford’s annual trends conference, 2015 Further With Ford, CEO Mark Fields announced the next phase of the company’s Smart Mobility plan, originally announced in January this year at CES ( earlier post ). Ford CEO Mark Fields at 2015 Further with Ford. That’s where Ford Smart Mobility comes in.

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Ford Companies London Connect 150

Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

He later served as Transportation Electrification Manager at Portland General Electric, so he’s worked both sides of the electric fence. If you’re CATL, you can sell in mass quantities to GM and Ford. If Tesla needs to come in and build a charging site, they’ve got to pay for the grid connection. It’s less time and effort.

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Fleet Portland Charging Building 52

Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2010

A graphene-oxide framework (GOF), formed of layers of graphene connected by boron-carboxylic “pillars.” The findings suggest stacks of graphene layers could potentially store hydrogen safely for use in fuel cells and other applications. To be presented at the March meeting of the American Physical Society (APS) in Portland, Ore.,

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Maybe the Ford Focus prototype he took a test ride in isn’t like all the other electric cars I’ve ridden in. Frank didn’t mention anything about the different cities like Portland and San Jose to name a couple who are building the first wave of plug in infrastructure. Maybe Frank is in the dark on those.

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