Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2011

Ford introduced its new new B-MAX concept vehicle at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show, providing an early preview of its plans for the European small car market. This new body design eliminates the traditional B-pillar structure at the trailing edge of the front door, which connects the roof to the floor. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2013

Ford unveiled the new, fifth-generation global Mondeo in China, the first Ford to be equipped with the new 1.5-liter EcoBoost is the fifth and latest member to join Ford’s global family of EcoBoost engines, which includes a 1.0-liter liter EcoBoost engine. The new 3-cylinder, 1.5L liter three-cylinder, 1.6- liter V6 variants.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2015

A team of engineers from GM Powertrain, Ford and FCA have published a detailed review of how to estimate the engine efficiency benefits of higher octane fuel—e.g., Practically, however, the range of regular-grade gasoline in the US is 89 to 96 RON; vehicles need to be designed to accommodate fuel with the lowest expected octane rating.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2016

Current mild-hybrid vehicle projects, in partnership with Ford and Hyundai/Kia, that utilize advanced 48V lead-carbon batteries, can reduce CO 2 emissions by 15-20%, according to the latest data from the Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium (ALABC), presented at the Advanced Automotive Battery Conference (25-28 January, Mainz).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2009

Ford Motor Company began production of its EcoBoost engines ( earlier post ) at Cleveland Engine Plant No. Ford invested $55 million to retool and reopen the plant, which had been idled in 2007. The “downsize and boost” strategy provides consumers better fuel economy without sacrificing the power for driving performance.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Ford says the engine can deliver up to 15% better fuel economy than comparable six-cylinder engines. Class-exclusive Active Grille Shutters are designed to help improve MKC fuel efficiency at highway speeds. Other engines in Ford’s EcoBoost family are the 1.0-liter Ford specifically engineered the 2.3-liter

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2010

The UK Technology Board has awarded a consortium comprising UK start-up Lontra , Ricardo, and Ford Motor Company funding to demonstrate Lontra’s Blade Supercharger. The team will integrate the novel technology with a downsized engine to create a Ford vehicle demonstrator. Animation of the Blade compressor.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Ford revealed further details of the upcoming four-cylinder versions of its turbocharged, gasoline direct-injected EcoBoost engine family (earlier post) at the Frankfurt Motor Show, prior to their first European production applications in 2010. all-new Ford C-MAX (shown at Frankfurt) and 2.0-liter Ford has confirmed that its new 2.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Ford unveiled the North American 2011 Ford Fiesta at the Los Angeles Auto Show. The Ford Fiesta’s 1.6-liter The Ford Fiesta’s 1.6-liter Barb Samardzich, vice president of Ford global powertrain engineering. Pull-Drift Compensation is designed to be imperceptible to the Fiesta driver. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

The next-generation Ford Focus 5-door hatchback, revealed at the 2010 North American International Auto Show. Ford unveiled its strategically important next-generation Ford Focus in both four-door sedan and five-door hatchback styles at the 2010 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2011

The BladeBoost uses the core design of the Blade Compressor, optimized for engine package and performance requirements. This enables the boost of downsized engines to be completely controlled at any point on the operating cycle, including part-load. Earlier post.). The unit is therefore a compact, double-acting rotary compressor.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 8, 2023

Ford spent a lot of money and a lot of time on the development of the MN12 platform. An intentional move on the company’s part, the plan was to catch a more elevated customer than those persuaded by the Fox body trio: Ford Thunderbird, Mercury Cougar, and Lincoln Mark VII. That was a notable increase over the 108.5-inch

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2014

Despite this progress, UCS noted, Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler still have higher than average new fleet smog-forming and GHG emissions. This report marks the first time another company has bested Honda, which came in second this year but has earned every “Greenest Automaker” designation from UCS since 1998.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Tesla Cybertruck Tesla Cybertruck The top of the pile when it comes to attention, the Cybertruck just about broke the internet when Tesla design chief Franz von Holzhausen broke two of its windows during the global unveil late in 2019. The much-hyped BYD ute is due in 2024 and it’s already been leaked in online patent images.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

For the ADEPT project, the consortium comprises CPT, the European Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium (EALABC), Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies, Ford and the University of Nottingham. The electrical machine design and control system for this application is particularly challenging for a number of reasons, the authors note.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Homogeneous GDI provides fuel efficiency benefits from charge air cooling, more facile turbocharging, and the downsizing that these permit. For this reason, there are currently significant research efforts aimed at understanding how PM emissions can be reduced by engine design (e.g., and fuel properties. gasoline blend. Resources.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 26, 2023

Throughout its (too long) tenure, the model dropped almost all notions of the increasingly irrelevant Designer Edition models. Ford was well aware in the Eighties how the two-door market (especially at the luxury end) was in flux. Ford felt such a development was required in order for the new coupes to be taken seriously.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Downweighting will be at the core of whatever other technology, design and powertrain changes are coming. Using aluminum will extend the efficiencies of other technologies, while enabling secondary cost-savings from downsized powertrains without sacrificing performance. Honda leads aluminum content as a percent of curb weight at 10.7%

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Cars That Think

MARCH 12, 2023

Sophisticated chassis and battery design gives new life to “lesser” chemistries—especially lithium iron phosphate that’s the hottest thing in batteries around the world—that would otherwise be uncompetitive and obsolete. This grand design, naturally, would demand an attendant burst of charger development.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

These include: HiTED In wheel motor for bus/truck (Volvo, Kollmorgen, Magnet Applications); HiUCV In wheel motor for refuse vehicle (Dennis Eagle, MIRA, Arnold Magnetics, MTL); MCVT Magnetic eCVT for heavy duty vehicles (Volvo, Arnold Magnetics); and MAGSPLIT Magnetic eCVT for passenger car (Ford, Romax Technology, Arnold Magnetics).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Independent on-engine test results have verified the simulation predictions that a Torotrak V-Charge variable drive mechanical supercharger enables more ambitious levels of engine downsizing. GTDI engine of the same Ford EcoBoost family outperformed the 1.5L A Ford Focus powered by a 1.0L Compared to a current 1.5L

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Green Cars News

MAY 18, 2009

The new Lincoln MKS is the first Ford Motor Company vehicle to introduce a premium twin-turbocharged 3.5-liter By 2013, more than 90 percent of Ford’s North American nameplates will be available with EcoBoost technology. “The beauty of EcoBoost is that it enables us to downsize for fuel efficiency, yet boost for power.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2009

We see dramatic downsizing and boosting [as] something that’s going to for gasoline engines especially. The basic approach of the downsized 3-cylinder gasoline direct injection (GDI) engine is to reduce engine displacement and decrease engine speed (downsizing and downspeeding) to increase engine load for improved specific fuel consumption.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2016

In Europe, Ford revealed the all-new 2.0-liter Building on the performance and technology of Ford’s award-winning EcoBoost gasoline engines, the EcoBlue diesel range will deliver power outputs ranging from 100 PS to 240 PS (99 to 237 hp). Developed by Ford engineering teams in the U.K. The four-cylinder 2.0-liter liter variant.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Ford Motor Company announced that the all-new Ford Mondeo (which is badged as Fusion in the US) in Europe will offer a new high-power diesel engine in addition to a new 1.0L The new high-powered TDCi diesel engine follows the downsizing trend we’ve led with our EcoBoost petrol technology. Mondeo 5-door. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2014

Source: Ford. At the US Department of Energy (DOE) Annual Merit Review in Washington, DC last week, Cory Weaver from Ford Research and Advanced Engineering reported that Ford has completed the planned build of 12 units of the new engine, and is working on vehicle integration for further testing per the project timeline.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2015

A comparison of the benefits of two different cylinder deactivation operating strategies for downsized 3-cylinder engines such as the 1.0L That may be, but Ford is exploring ways to further improve the fuel efficiency of the three-cylinder design, including the possible use of cylinder deactivation. Schamel et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2015

Ford, in collaboration with the Schaeffler Group, is investigating different cylinder deactivation approaches on its award-winning 1.0-liter, For testing, engineers equipped a Ford Focus 1.0-liter Pattern of alternating cylinder deactivation (the red phase designates the active operating mode). Source: Schaeffler.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

The piston has a shallow bowl designed to ensure stable combustion during engine cold-start operations. Source: Ford. Ford’s turbocharged, gasoline direct injection EcoBoost engines are targeted to play a significant near-term role in Ford’s efforts to reduce fuel consumption by enabling downsizing. Source: Ford.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2015

BorgWarner’s regulated two-stage (R2S) turbocharging technology is improving the performance and fuel economy of Ford’s new 2.0-liter liter TDCi diesel engine, the first Ford engine for passenger cars equipped with a two-stage turbocharging system. Ford is also offering an enhanced 2.0-liter liter TDCi diesel engine.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2011

It is a high octane fuel with combustion characteristics that allow engines specifically designed for methanol fuel to match the best efficiencies of diesels while meeting current pollutant emission regulations. The concept has been demonstrated and proven in systematic dynamometer tests at Ford. It is a safe fuel.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

A Tier-2 supplier headquartered in Belgium, BMT Drive Solutions—acting under the brand name of VCST—is involved in the mass-production of gears & shafts (from 20,000 up to 2 million parts/year.pgm) for major OEMs (such as VW, Ford, Porsche, DAF or Cummins) & Tier 1s. sec overall shifting time).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Each pixel in each 3d contour represents a design which plots an attribute against a design feature or a design feature against another design feature to identify optimum combinations to deliver desired effects. This is a very important tool for Ford, Gray said. Rough schematic of Ford’s powersplit architecture.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It’s even going to keep a few of Chrysler’s oldest units around — just with some improvements designed to meet the relevant emissions standards.& We could go and redo the Hemi, but we realized we needed to downsize the engine and bring up the power." & Stellantis is downsizing powertrains and has confirmed that the 3.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

The team sees further potential for fuel economy improvement with engine downsizing. Nozzle design significantly influenced jet penetration pattern and mixture formation. The team ended up using a 4-hole design.) The H2-DI engine was estimated to exceed 2016 CAFE targets with engine out Tier 2 Bin 2 (SULEV) emission levels.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2017

The new Tiguan is well-designed, -engineered and -built, and is packed with content; driving is a pleasure, even when the road and traffic are not. Put another way, the rightsizing approach combines the fuel economy benefits of downsizing with the power of a larger-displacement unit. 2017 Ford Escape. Select compact SUVs.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Augmenting its existing LC Super Hybrid program ( earlier post ), which deploys a downsized gasoline-electric powertrain, ALABC is working on advanced diesel-electric applications in development programs being undertaken with car makers including Ford and Kia. —Allan Cooper.

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