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How Volkswagen is using escape rooms to prepare employees for an electric future

Electrek

If you’ve ever been in an escape room, you know how fast pace and intense it can be. Volkswagen is applying the same methodology to train its employees for the future of electric vehicles, but these are not your typical escape rooms.

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Ford Escape Plug-In Hybrid on track for 2021 release

Green Car Reports

The Ford Escape Plug-In Hybrid is an intriguing product that ties one of Ford’s best-selling models to the future of the brand, which is best represented by the electric 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E. The Escape PHEV was originally due to arrive for the 2020 model year and had a price as of December 2019.

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Ford Explorer EV firms as replacement for soon-to-be-discontinued Escape SUV

EV Central

Ford has cracked the door wide open for the new Explorer EV to come to Australia following the decision to axe the Escape SUV locally. Birkic says the decisions was about positioning the brand for the future and the evolving transition to EV, something he says the company is “all-in” on. We’ve made a decision that’s not Escape.”

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Ford hints at an Escape-sized electric SUV with the interior space of an Explorer

Baua Electric

Ford’s CEO John Lawler said at the BofA Auto Summit Tuesday an Escape-sized electric SUV can offer the same interior space as its best-selling Explorer on its new EV platform. Despite being best known for larger vehicles like its F-150 trucks, Ford is working toward that future. The opposite is true for gas-powered vehicles.

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Faraday Future forced to delay deliveries, scrambles for cash

Teslarati

Faraday Future announced that it would push back deliveries of its first vehicles as it scrambles to secure more funding. Faraday Future never truly seems to be able to escape its whirlwind of issues, and even as it has implemented changes, those problems don’t seem to be ending. from its peak of $18.45.

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German electric cars, VW battery buys, Pruitt's EPA vs California, future Escape Hybrid? Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Today, we've got electric-car news from VW Group, war brewing between the EPA and California, the reason Germany electric-car sales are rising rapidly, and some thoughts on why Ford might bring back the Escape Hybrid in future. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Ford applies MuCell microcellular foam technology in Escape instrument panel

Green Car Congress

Ford is applying MuCell microcellular foam technology ( earlier post ) in the instrument panel of the all-new Escape. The MuCell process is slated for use in the production of instrument panels, along with other applications, in future Ford vehicles beginning next year following its debut in the new Escape.

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