Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2009

Christopher Knittel, of the UC Davis Department of Economics and Institute of Transportation Studies, developed a model to examine the technical relationship between vehicle weight, engine power and fuel economy—to which he refers as a production possibilities frontier (PPF)—and how this PPF shifts out over time. Knittel, 2009. Knittel, 2009.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Ford has confirmed that the first production applications for the new 1.0-liter, liter, 3-cylinder EcoBoost engine ( earlier post ) will be three models in the European product range: first the Focus, followed by C-MAX and the all-new Ford B-MAX. Ford will introduce two versions of the 1.0-liter liters globally.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Ford will upgrade its entire powertrain portfolio in China by bringing 20 advanced engines and transmissions to support its planned introduction of 15 new vehicles to China—the world’s largest auto market—by 2015. Ford also announced that it will produce its new 1.0-liter million EcoBoost engines annually.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2013

A study by a team from Ford Motor Company and AVL has concluded that a mid-level ethanol blend—greater than E20 but less than E40—appears to be attractive as a long-term future fuel for the US for use in engines optimized for the higher octane blend. Downsizing/downspeeding. 1 (current production) and 11.9:1.

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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 format has already been engineered for production. liter Ford EcoBoost gasoline engine equipped with the Ford Auto-Start-Stop system. Click to enlarge.

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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. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Highly efficient at low engine revolutions, electric superchargers make it possible to downsize engines. Our automotive customers wanted clarity about future plans for the VTES product and a sale to Valeo was the best solution to enable our VTES technology to reach its full potential. Earlier post.). —CPT CEO Nick Pascoe“.

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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

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. liter V-6 for the F-150.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

As the project approaches its mid-point, the research team—led by Ricardo and including Ford Motor Company, Controlled Power Technologies (CPT), the European Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium (EALABC), Faurecia and the University of Nottingham—has completed the build of the first functional integration prototype ADEPT vehicle.

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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., fuel with higher ethanol content—for part- and full-load operation for different engine types and fuel assumptions. In their study, Leone et al.

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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

JANUARY 14, 2011

Ford is focused on lightweighting as a key enabling technology for lowering fuel consumption in combustion-engined vehicles (ICE) and for extending the range—and the size—of battery electric vehicles (EVs). At a media dinner with other Ford executives, including Ford Executive Chairman Bill Ford Jr.;

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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 I-4 EcoBoost. Click to enlarge.

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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. Other engines in Ford’s EcoBoost family are the 1.0-liter EcoBoost technology is available in every region Ford serves worldwide, and will be offered on approximately 80% of the company’s global nameplates by the end of this year.

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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. Ford led the Detroit automakers while achieving the greatest percent reduction in smog-forming emissions of any manufacturer evaluated. Climate Change Coal Emissions Fuel Efficiency'

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EV Central

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In fact, we reckon there are almost 20 load-haulers either confirmed or said to be on the way to production. Being built at a new Gigafactory in Austin Texas, first US Cybertruck deliveries are scheduled for production late in 2023, having been delayed on multiple occasions. Let’s check out the list. Will it come to Australia?

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2016

Employing original Honda technologies, the fuel cell stack for this model was downsized by 33% compared to the previous version of the fuel cell stack yet delivers 130 kW of output, with an output density of 3.1 Cost, productivity, efficiency and fuel economy now offer the highest focus for technology investment, he said.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 26, 2023

And as Lincoln sought to clarify its product lineup by separating the Continental sedan and allowing the Mark to stand on its own, the company also attempted to bring in a new, sportier customer. Ford was well aware in the Eighties how the two-door market (especially at the luxury end) was in flux.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2014

CAM also selected Mercedes-Benz as the most innovative brand; BMW came in second, followed by Volkswagen, Audi and Ford. The CAM/PwC study highlighted such optimization measures as downsizing in combination with turbocharging and cylinder deactivation. Mercedes-Benz took the top brand award, followed by BMW, Volkswagen, Audi and Ford.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2014

liter EA888 Gen3 engine featured in Audi’s all-road shooting brake plug-in hybrid concept unveiled at the North American International Auto Show this week ( earlier post ) features—as does its production ilk—a dual injection system that combines direct injection with indirect injection into the intake manifold. Earlier post.).

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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. The Ford team took PM measurements just upstream of the GPF as a surrogate for tailpipe values. The vehicles were fueled with an E10 ethanol?gasoline gasoline blend.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2016

The vehicles on which the research was based were representative of current production models at the more aggressive end of the downsizing spectrum in terms of engine capacity and output, but modeled with a future three cylinder 1.5 liter diesel engine. Attribute analysis presented in SIA paper.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 12, 2023

A battery will be the high-voltage heart of each of those 77 million electric vehicles, and by far their most expensive component, setting off a worldwide race to ethically source their materials and crank up production to meet exploding demand. EVs may have seized a record 5.8 percent of the United States market in 2022 , according to J.D.

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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. SR machines are ideally suited to this concept of low cost development, while reducing the cost of production components.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Now at the Frankfurt Motor Show Ford has announced a new family of petrol engines offering the opportunity to down size engine capacity without suffering a reduction in performance. The first Ford cars to see this Ecoboost technology will be the all-new C-Max and Grand C-Max models, as the company introduce two engine sizes – 1.6-litre

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2010

Objectives are: (a) develop and demonstrate Li-S prototype cells with specific energy of 250 Wh/Kg and improved cycle life stability; (b) demonstrate Li-S cell tolerance to mechanical, electrical and thermal abuse; (c) demonstrate a bill of materials of $800/KWh (in volume production). Ricardo UK Ltd (lead), Lontra, Ford Motor Company.

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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 Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Production cost and breakeven figures that analysts enjoy bandying can trap you in bubble of black-and-white mathematics that is a few brush-strokes shy of a full picture. OPEC governments downsize their budgets, cut social spending and put big projects on hold to lower the breakeven price. So the breakeven is elusive.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

The HyBoost project ( earlier post ), a two-year collaborative research program led by Ricardo in partnership with Controlled Power Technologies, the European Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium, Ford, Imperial College London, and Valeo, aims to demonstrate a very cost-effective, ultra-efficient gasoline engine in a C-segment passenger car.

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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

JANUARY 17, 2011

Large scale production of methanol from natural gas and coal is a well-developed. Large scale production of methanol from natural gas and coal is a well-developed. In comparison, they noted, the technology for bio-chemical ethanol production from cellulosic biomass is not sufficiently developed yet. use could be developed.

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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

This is a very important tool for Ford, Gray said. The hybrid system in the coming 2013 MY Fusion and C-Max hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) ( earlier post ) marks the third major generation of Ford’s powersplit system. With the Generation 3 HEV system, Ford decided to downsize the engine from a 2.5L Atkinson to a 2.0L

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 4, 2023

While the performance unit downsized its powertrains in a bid to be more emissions compliant, fans pointed out that AMG had long been synonymous with under-stressed and over-engineered V8s making enough power to burn through a set of tires in a single outing.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 5, 2024

They haven’t, and GM is clearly struggling to overcome a host of startup production problems with its Ultium vehicles—sales of which have remained far, far below the company’s own goals. The first several months’ worth of EV9s will be built in South Korea, but US production will start sometime during 2024 in West Point, Georgia.

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