Green Cars News

MARCH 29, 2012

Headquartered in Michigan, US, the company is best known for its work with Ford, retrofitting Transit Connect vans with batteries to convert them to [.]. In the process, the company makes redundant some 120 workers at its facilities in the US, UK and Canada.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2014

Ford Transit Connect PFI vehicle (PFI#2). All vehicles accumulated mileage on-road prior to the emission measurements; all vehicles were equipped with three-way catalytic converters (TWCs). The two compact vehicles were a 2012 2.0L Ford Focus wall-guided, stoichiometric GDI vehicle (GDI#2) and a 2013 2.0L

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2009

To produce the vehicles, Ford is converting three truck and SUV plants to car plants—Michigan Assembly, Cuautitlan Assembly in Mexico, which begins building the new Fiesta subcompact early next year; and Louisville (Ky.) Assembly, which will be converted to produce small vehicles from Ford’s global Focus platform beginning in 2011.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

The transmission has been specially engineered for the Transit applications, including a new torque converter and external casing to optimize refinement, and is based on a highly durable design that has proven itself with powerful front-wheel drive vehicles in North America, with a torque capacity of more than 415 N·m.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Frank Thorpe, Business Development Manager, Go-Ahead London, said: “Go-Ahead are pleased to be working with the Mayor of London’s initiative to encourage the use and development of electric vehicles and we are committed to converting our entire bus support fleet in London to electric power as soon as possible.&#.

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Green Cars News

MAY 6, 2009

To produce the vehicles, Ford is converting three truck and SUV plants to car plants - Michigan Assembly, Cuautitlan Assembly in Mexico, which begins building the new Fiesta subcompact early next year; and Louisville Assembly, which will be converted to produce small vehicles from Ford’s global Focus platform beginning in 2011.

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Green Cars News

JULY 1, 2009

The full BEV powertrain showcased in the Tourneo Connect Concept was developed in collaboration with Smith Electric Vehicles, the UK’s leading battery electric specialist converter of commercial vehicles. Smith will also offer the Transit Connect van for sale in Europe as the Smith Ampere from 2010.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2009

In 2007 they sold 260 vehicles worth approximately £26 million and were expanding their capacity in the UK to be able to convert 3,000 vehicles in 2008. UK Business Secretary Lord Mandelson behind the wheel of the Smith Ampere electric van, based on the Ford Transit Connect. Click to enlarge.

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