Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Honda, BMW, and Ford get together for looking at how EVs could connect to the grid. And we go hands-on with how the Kia EV9 will help back up the home and smooth the grid. The Mazda CX-9 PHEV makes the safety honor roll. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Ford is offering its all-electric vehicle customers North America’s largest electric vehicle public charging network—the FordPass Charging Network—with more than 12,000 places to charge, including fast charging, and more than 35,000 charge plugs—more than any other automotive manufacturer.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2009

The Ford PHEV charge settings user interface. Ford Motor Company has developed an intelligent vehicle-to-grid communications and control system for its plug-in hybrid electric vehicles that communicates directly with the electric grid. Bill Ford, Ford’s executive chairman. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Teslarati

APRIL 3, 2023

Ford said this morning that it is poised to meet its lofty electric vehicle production goals for 2023 and 2026 while reiterating its goals to have EVs make up half of its sales volume by the end of the decade. Credit: Ford Ford has had its struggles in early EV production, which have made things difficult at times.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 24, 2023

Ford CEO Jim Farley took to social media on Tuesday to announce that the automaker is reversing a decision to remove AM radio from its vehicles. We’ve decided to include it on all 2024 Ford and Lincoln vehicles,” Farley stated on Twitter and LinkedIn. The downsides of permanent vehicular connectivity are becoming known.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Ford revealed the production version of the new Transit Custom plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) at IAA Commercial Vehicle show in Hannover, Germany. The Transit Custom PHEV targets an all-electric driving range of 50 kilometers (31 miles), and uses the multi-award-winning Ford 1.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

At CES 2015 in January, Ford CEO Mark Fields announced “Ford Smart Mobility”—a plan to use innovation to take Ford to the next level in connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, the customer experience and big data. Ford did write the software that did the analysis of the sensor data. Earlier post.)

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Cars That Think

JUNE 27, 2022

Unlike those you may have grown accustomed to seeing, many of these stations don’t just charge electric cars—they can also send power from vehicle batteries to the local utility grid for use by homes and businesses. Debates over the feasibility and value of such vehicle-to-grid technology go back decades. This is good for the grid.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 18, 2022

No less an auto industry titan as Ford has also made bidirectional charging a selling point of their F-150 Lightning electric truck, reportedly slated to roll off the lines this year. These V2H/V2G-enabled vehicles offer some three to 10 days powering the fridge and lights in case the power goes down. feet) of torque.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Researchers at the University of Michigan and Ford Motor Company have found that using a Level 4 connected and automated vehicle (CAV) subsystem could increase vehicle primary energy use and GHG emissions by 3–20% due to increases in power consumption, weight, drag, and data transmission. Credit: ACS, Gawron et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2010

Canada-based Rapid Electric Vehicles (REV) has begun production of four converted electric bi-directional charging Ancillary Power Vehicles (APVs) ( earlier post ) as part of the US Army Tank Automotive Research Development Engineering Center (TARDEC) Micro-Grid project at Wheeler Air Base, Hawaii.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2017

Advancements such as connectivity, big data, autonomous vehicles and artificial intelligence are driving new economic models for automakers, and most see tremendous revenue potential and consumer value in leveraging driver and vehicle data to offer mobility services, according to the 2017 KPMG Global Automotive Executive Study.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2010

Ford Motor Company and Portland General Electric will collaborate to help prepare the city of Portland and the Pacific Northwest for the operation of electric vehicles. Ford will draw upon PGE’s partnership with Portland State University to further study urban mobility and the integration of energy and sustainable design.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

With technology solutions allowing vehicles to optimally charge and provide grid services, Highland is helping customers improve energy efficiency and resiliency. Fontinalis Partners was co-founded by Bill Ford, Executive Chairman of the Ford Motor Company. My partners and I believe millions of fleet vehicles will electrify.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2016

As part of its LiDAR sensor development, Ford has tested Fusion Hybrid autonomous research vehicles in complete darkness without headlights on desert roads, demonstrating the capability to perform beyond the limits of human drivers. —Jim McBride, Ford technical leader for autonomous vehicles. LiDAR sensors shoot out 2.8

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

As more consumers purchase electric vehicles in the coming decades, a huge question is plaguing governments and the auto industry: Can the grid keep up with the dramatic increase in demand for electricity? Simply put, V2G allows energy to flow in both directions, both from the grid to the vehicle and from the vehicle to the grid.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2010

a designer and operator of a complete service delivery infrastructure for connected vehicles, have formed a partnership to provide telematics services for electric vehicles (EVs) globally. It currently enables solutions for Ford SYNC, OnStar, Motorola, BMW, Shell FuelSave Partner and several other category-leading brands.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2010

Fielding five converted Toyota Priuses and a Ford Escape, and deploying electric vehicle management technology from GridPoint, BGE will investigate when and where drivers will charge their vehicles, what effect charging may have on BGE’s peak load periods, and how that load can be managed to provide cost-efficient energy to customers.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 4, 2022

AT&T named him chief scientist, and in that position he worked on developing architecture and protocols for a large-scale Internet so that customers could connect to it from their homes. In 1969 he was tasked with helping to build transmission lines in Bangladesh that connected the country’s eastern and western electrical grids.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 29, 2022

There simply isn’t enough space to produce adequate power and attach a strong enough inverter to make charging practical—one example estimates it would require more than 400 hours to charge a Ford F1-50 Lightning. However, one of the problems that prevent such parking lots from arising everywhere is high installation and connection costs.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Ford announced two partnerships with utilities in Texas— Austin Energy in Austin and Centerpoint Energy in Houston—to prepare those two regions for electric vehicles. Ford and the two partners plan to work with state and local officials around permitting and regulations to support electric vehicle infrastructure.

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Teslarati

APRIL 30, 2024

These tactics have included the withholding of license plates , blocking Tesla shipments at ports , and preventing new Superchargers from connecting to the grid. The news also comes amidst heightened union activity in the U.S., facilities.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In addition to the CASE (Connected-Autonomous-Shared-Electrified)-driven transformation of the industry, a combination of additional internal and external factors is piling on complexity. Additionally, Ford has just announced a ‘resizing’ in plans to build a $3.5 The United Auto Workers strike in the U.S. In the U.S.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Ford Motor Company and the New York Power Authority (NYPA) are coordinating efforts to help prepare the state of New York for the operation of electric vehicles. Cooperation between Ford and NYPA also involves working with the state and local governments on the most efficient ways to bring EVs to New York.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2011

Ford unveiled a new MyFord Mobile app being introduced exclusively with the all-new Ford Focus Electric. The MyFord Mobile technology allows Focus Electric owners in North America to stay connected, monitor and control their vehicle. The feature also is accessible via a secure Ford website. supported browsers.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2012

In an address at the 2012 Mackinac Policy Conference, Ford Motor Company Executive Chairman Bill Ford said that “ Michigan must become the Silicon Valley of the mobility revolution ” and outlined key public policy areas to help improve the state’s competitiveness and ensure that the state realizes the full benefit of that impending revolution.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

Support mobility technologies such as connected and automated vehicles, as well as innovations in transit. e-Mosaic: Electrification Mosaic Platform for Grid- Informed Smart Charging Management. Utility Managed Smart Charging for Consumer and Grid Benefits. Ford Motor Company. Project description. Federal share.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2015

At Consumer Electronics Show Asia, Ford launched a strategic collaboration with Haier (home appliance), Trina Solar (solar power) and Delta Electronics (power management) to introduce MyEnergi Lifestyle ( earlier post ) to China, a holistic approach for lowering the energy costs and carbon footprint of Chinese families.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2010

Ford Motor Company and Microsoft Corp. announced at the New York International Auto Show that they are teaming up to implement the Microsoft Hohm energy management application for Ford’s electric vehicles. Ford is the first automaker to announce the planned use of Hohm, starting with the Focus Electric next year.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2010

Ford, Detroit Edison and Xtreme Power are teaming up to establish one of Michigan’s largest solar power generation systems and electric vehicle charging stations at Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich. Ford will work with Detroit Edison to install a 500 kW solar photovoltaic panel system at Michigan Assembly.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2015

The Eguana power control system manages system power flow and handles the core power conversion functions—AC→DC and DC→AC—as well as connectivity with power grid. Tesla is now expected to announce a grid-scale battery pack as well as a home battery to come from its GigaFactory capacity.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2009

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 ). Ford’s product approach to electrification. Currently, Ford has four full hybrids on the market. Mike Tinskey.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2016

million seed funding round, led by Motus Ventures and including investment from Ford Motor Company, Wicklow Capital, StartX Stanford and Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang’s AME Cloud Ventures. Civil Maps’ technology hashes each location in a grid framework that corrects distortion errors and relines the object’s position to its true mean.

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Electric Auto Association

APRIL 2, 2022

There’s been a lot of talk about electric vehicles (EVs) acting as backup power for homes during blackouts—so much so that Ford is now using the concept as a central component of its marketing campaign for the F-150 Lightning. An alternative would be using tens to hundreds of connected cars as a resource while their owners are elsewhere.

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EV Match

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The charging stations that were installed were quite simple in design and operation, and did not connect to a Wi-Fi or cellular network. These types of chargers are connected to the internet via Wi-Fi or cellular connections. Whenever the grid usage is at its peak, the utility notifies the customer of a demand response event.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 1, 2010

Another interesting development : Ford is using Microsoft’s technology in its upcoming EV. Microsoft’s Hohm to Manage Ford’s Electric Cars. Ford CEO Alan Mulally announced the partnership Wednesday at the opening day of the New York International Auto Show. manage off-hours home electrical usage?

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2011

These vehicles will be studied to help evolve all-electric vehicle technology and to establish a foundation of understanding on utility grid needs by modeling impact of future all-electric vehicle growth on the shared energy grid.

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