Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Ford has officially announced the second member of its turbocharged, gasoline direct-injection EcoBoost family, a 2.0-liter, The first engine in the EcoBoost line, a 3.5L, V6 engine ( earlier post ), is being applied in the 2010 Ford Taurus SHO and Flex and Lincoln MKS and MKT. The 2010 Product Plan. 2010 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

Ford of Europe has released the first official images of the all-new Ford C-MAX, which will make its global debut at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show. The Ford C-MAX will introduce a number of new technologies to the Ford range, including a new 1.6-liter liter Ford EcoBoost turbocharged direct injection gasoline engine.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

In addition to introducing the next-generation Focus to the European market after its introduction at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit ( earlier post ), Ford will show the production versions of the new C-MAX and Grand C-MAX, previewed at the Frankfurt Show last year, at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Today's Junkyard Find is an example of the second type of Marauderization (not to be confused with Moroder ization ) within the world of Ford's Mercury Division. Starting in 1958, Ford's new MEL ( M ercury- E dsel- L incoln) big-block V8 engine was given the Marauder name when installed in Mercury models. Yes, I bought these badges.

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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. Ford’s PHEV vehicle-to-grid communications.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2010

Ford Motor Company has scheduled three more EcoBoost engines to be launched by the end of the year. By 2013 Ford expects to be producing approximately 1.5 Barb Samardzich, Ford’s vice president of powertrain engineering. liter four-cylinder for the next-generation Ford Explorer SUV and Edge CUV. Tags: Engines.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The Ford Figo. Ford Motor Company President and CEO Alan Mulally revealed the new Ford Figo, the anticipated new car to be produced in India and targeted at the India and export market. Ford said that Mulally’s visit for the reveal underscores the strategic importance of India in Ford’s future plans. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2009

According to the study, higher fuel economy standards would benefit the Detroit 3 automakers the most. According to the report, “Fixing Detroit: How Far, How Fast, How Fuel Efficient?” mpg) would increase Detroit automakers’ gross profits by roughly $3 billion per year and increase sales by the equivalent of two large assembly plans.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2010

The exhibit coincides with Magna’s strategy to strengthen its position as a leader in hybrid and electric vehicle development and products. In addition to developing products and technologies to meet current market demands, Magna has also embarked on the development of next-generation systems and components. Earlier post.)

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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

AUGUST 17, 2009

In an interview with GCC at the Plug-in 2009 conference last week, Mike Tinskey, global manager of Ford’s sustainability activities focused on electric vehicles, said that Ford is concerned about BYD. “ [They] could take advantage of low-cost. BYD, launched its production plug-in hybrid F3DM last December in China.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2010

The two companies will offer the option of a comprehensive and fully integrated solution ranging from the development of powertrain products incorporating new ECUs by Ricardo, through to high-quality, volume electronics manufacture and supply from Pi Shurlok. Tags: Engines Hybrids Vehicle Systems.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Thomas said that ALTe is building a robustly engineered, professional quality, mass production powertrain conversion kit assembly operation and plans to produce up to 90,000 powertrains per year. Tags: Conversions Hybrids Plug-ins. Gen1 System installed in a Crown Vic. ” —John Thomas.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2009

At SAE 2009 World Congress in Detroit last month, Ford Motor Company presented a research paper that detailed the results of an initial investigation, termed a Design of Experiment, into thermoelectric exhaust heat energy recovery in conjunction with a hybrid powertrain. Click to enlarge. Adapted from Hussain et. Click to enlarge.

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Green Cars News

JULY 22, 2009

The green innovations continue to come thick and fast from the leading car manufacturers with Ford announcing the second member of its turbocharged, petrol direct-injection EcoBoost family. engine included twin independent variable camshaft timing and this system has now been applied in the production 2.0l 2010 Ford Flex with EcoBoost.

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Plugs and Cars

MARCH 23, 2007

But there it is in a Detroit News Autos Insider piece today. Just weeks after announcing production, perhaps, in 2010, the industry's hometown paper lets us know this is no done deal. The Volt grabbed headlines, lit up online chat boards and dominated the buzz at the auto show in Detroit. Last year, Ford Motor Co.

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Plug In Partners

JUNE 11, 2008

which makes Panasonic products, will begin producing lithium-ion batteries next year and move into full-scale production in 2010, Toyota said. Tags: manufacturers government. Lithium-ion batteries , now common in laptops, produce more power and are smaller than nickel-metal hydride batteries used in hybrids now.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 28, 2008

Here is the outline of what the bill intends to do: SECTION 131 TRANSPORTATION ELECTRIFICATION SEC 131 Transportation Electrification DOE to establish competitive grants for electric vehicles and PHEVs to encourage early widespread use and advance production of electric (And PHEV) vehicles in USA. $90 Tags: legislation.

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Plug In Partners

MAY 23, 2007

Wait Don’t Tell Me” this past Saturday.The GM product boss said the vehicle he is most excited about, and the one he thinks will be the most significant for GM, is the Chevy Volt. The Volt is the plug-in hybrid car GM showed at last January’s Detroit Auto Show. Tags: manufacturers. Yes, the Volt should be Lutz’s legacy.

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Plug In Partners

MAY 20, 2008

by ’10 By BILL VLASIC Published: May 13, 2008 DETROIT — The Nissan Motor Company plans to sell an electric car in the United States and Japan by 2010, raising the stakes in the race to develop environmentally friendly vehicles. Ford ( F ). Tags: manufacturers. clip The company plans to introduce 60 models worldwide by 2012.

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Green Cars News

JULY 1, 2009

today clarified and expanded upon the H2GO™ computerized test data for Ford engines. The following is a summary of results obtained from testing the H2GO™ system on a 2007 Lincoln Navigator with a Ford 5.4 Litre Engine (the Ford family 4.6 on the Ford family of engines. on the Ford family of engines.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 4, 2009

Among them is Norwegian electric car company Think, which was formerly owned by Ford. Its Think City car, which has a 112 mile range, has been rolling off the production line since December 2007 although production was halted late last year in the wake of the credit crunch. Tags: Electric cars Green cars TH!NK nk City Th!nk

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

GM also gave a tour of the pre-production area where we could see production-intent Chevy Volts being assembled. The people I talked about realized you only get one second chance, were very thankful for the government support and were enthusiastic about the products they had coming out over the next 24 months. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2009

Large automakers based in Michigan, including GM, Chrysler, and Ford, will receive a total of more than $400 million to manufacture thousands of advanced hybrid and electric vehicles as well as batteries and electric drive components. Production of manganese oxide cathode / graphite lithium-ion batteries for hybrid and electric vehicles.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Some of the automakers include in that agreement are Volkswagen, BMW, Ford, General Motors, Fiat, Toyota and Mitsubishi. This is a major step froward in EV mass production. is a Green Options Media Production. » See also: 9 Electric Cars 100 Years Old or More » Get Gas 2.0 by RSS or sign up by email. About Gas 2.0

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Daniel Ford, Managing Director and the head of US Utilities Equity Research for Barclays Capital noted that utilities are mature, capital-intensive, highly-regulated groups of companies that are local monopolies. —Dan Ford. Tags: Batteries Market Background Plug-ins Policy Power Generation. —Felix Kramer. [GM

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Aiways U6 – ambitious EV start-up has big plans and right-hand drive production is already confirmed, opening the door to a local arrival. Avatar E11 – a new brand with big dreams, Avatar has input from Huawei and CATL and is the product of Chinese car maker Changan. BMW iX1 – EV version of the X1 confirmed by 2023.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 24, 2023

The first Studebaker car was an EV that went into production in South Bend in 1902. By the 1950s, however, small manufacturers were being crushed by GM, Ford and Chrysler. By the 1960 model year, the Lark had what turned out to be unbeatable competition from Detroit. After all, there's already one Lark competing in the series.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

REDDIT STUMBLE UPON MYSPACE MIXX IT Paste this link into your favorite RSS desktop reader See all CNNMoney.com RSS FEEDS ( close ) By Peter Valdes-Dapena , CNNMoney.com senior writer Last Updated: April 15, 2009: 2:59 PM ET The Dodge Circuit, slated to enter production late next year, is based on a vehicle platform engineered by Britains Lotus.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 19, 2009

Since the products you make actually give people cancer and a reason to need chemo, your punchline has an extra bonus laugh attached. And right now they’re all doing a group bit where they put on diapers and cry their eyes out over having to cut the death dealing emissions that their product produces everywhere it’s used.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 19, 2009

More Recharging Detroit The future of the U.S. and we must do it quickly to save Detroit. As a start, Energy Secretary Steven Chu should organize an industry council - like the World War II Production Board - and run it as if we were under wartime pressure. But the critical limitation is going to be battery production.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

Plug In America makes no representations as to the workmanship, creditworthiness, or any other attributes of the companies listed or of their products or services. Tags: ev evdriven. The following lists are not exhaustive or fully comprehensive, but we have tried to include a representative list of resources for each category.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 15, 2009

Ford Fiesta :Interesting English conversion. Groov-E-Skootz: electricscooter and bicycle retailer Midget Motors : Gizmo distributor SD Scooters : Electric Scooters SunValley Ford : They sold the Ford Ranger EV, now canceled. FordExpress : Svein Medhus has the first EV conversion in Norway. See what you missed.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 30, 2009

Automakers unveiled more than a dozen production-ready, plug-in electric and hybrid electric vehicles at the Detroit auto show earlier this month, many of which will be on dealership lots between 2010 and 2012. Several automakers, including Ford, have partnered with Edison to ensure those cars can get their electricity from somewhere.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. Partnering with Alcoa, Duke Energy, Google.org, Johnson Controls Indiana startup plans to unveil vehicle May 2009 at EVS-24 in Norway; mass production in 2012. 1,000 pre-orders for small production runs in 2009 and 2010starting 4th quarter 2009.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 11, 2009

Today, electric vehicles and plug-in cars are a niche product. So far, none of the money has been doled out, but 75 companies, including three Detroit auto manufacturers, have submitted applications, according to the New York Times. Tags: Production News Inside Track EV Economics tax incentives legislation.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Merc wants the electric smart to perform badly, to have a short range and little power, so that it dosent eat up other products in the lineup. Line breaks and paragraphs are automatically converted — no need to use or tags. Check out the pics in the gallery below and dont forget to hit the jump for some smart video action.

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