Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2017

These include EV fleet management, route planning and telematics solutions. In addition, in New York and several major US cities, Ford is testing a fleet of 20 Transit Connect hybrid taxi and van prototypes in some of the world’s most demanding traffic conditions.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2009

While the introduction of the Fusion Hybrid has spurred sales from non-Ford owners, Ford said, its longest-running hybrid nameplate, the Escape Hybrid, has proven popular with Ford customers operating taxi, lifeguard and government fleets due to the combination of fuel efficiency and durability.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Battery reliability ranks as the single-most important purchase consideration by potential hybrid customers, topping 17 other factors such as fuel economy and number of safety features, according to a recent Ford-commissioned survey.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

It can do this with little disruption to the way homes and industry purchase and use energy today. All we really need in addition to fleets of new paradigm vehicles are additional solar and wind generation sources. We can set a goal to have every new vehicle purchased be a PHEV. These PHEV Volts have a 35 mile (56 km) AER.

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Teslarati

APRIL 24, 2024

On the demand front, we’ve undertaken a variety of initiatives, including lowering the price of both the purchase and subscription options for FSD, launching extremely attractive leasing specials for the Model 3 in the U.S. As Ashok was saying, we have to be very careful in what we release to the fleet or to to customers in general.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The first buyers will be fleet users, which will build central fast-charging facilities. Department of Energy has purchased an F3DM to take the battery apart. Both will be sold first in China, primarily to fleet users: the government, post office, utilities, and taxi companies, all of which will build central fast-charging facilities.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The government will make direct grants to automakers (as we do, of course) and also provide “subsidies of up to $8,800 are being offered to taxi fleets and local government agencies in 13 Chinese cities for each hybrid or all-electric vehicle they purchase.”

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