Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2012

2013 Ford Fusion. Ford unveiled the new 2013 Ford Fusion midsize sedan, with conventional gasoline engine; hybrid featuring a next-generation of Ford’s hybrid system; and plug-in hybrid versions at the Detroit Auto Show—the first production sedan to offer that trio of options. The next-generation Fusion 1.6-liter

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2011

A recent white paper by Leslie Bromberg of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center and Wai K. There is no strong advocacy for methanol (unlike ethanol) as a transportation fuel; therefore, they said, it has been displaced by ethanol as oxygenate of choice in gasoline blends. It is a safe fuel.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2013

Backed by 27 companies in the sector, including supply chain companies, the commitment is expected to secure at least 30,000 jobs currently linked to producing engines and create many more in the supply chain. Internal combustion engines. Downsizing and downspeeding including more sophisticated charge air/boost systems.

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Industrial Industry Carbon Vehicles 210

Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2014

MiGTDI engine. 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

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 EcoBoost gasoline engine option and a new hybrid option. Engine range. liter TDCi engine. liter gasoline engine.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

CalCars Plug-In Hybrids page has a good explanation; Ron Grembans PHEVs: the Technical Side presentation notes follows up with a technical overview of gasoline vs. flex-fuel vs. Diesel vs. hybrid vs. plug-in hybrid vehicles, followed by the (positive) social implications of PHEVs and especially flex-fuel PHEVs. In English-system (vs.

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