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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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New Ford Escape launching with two new EcoBoost engines with standard Auto Start-Stop

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The new Ford Escape, being showcased at the Los Angeles Auto Show, is the first Ford vehicle to make Auto Start-Stop standard with either of two EcoBoost engines new to the model—a 1.5-liter Escape SE and Titanium trim levels come standard with the new 1.5-liter liter and 2.0-liter liter twin-scroll.

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2013 Ford Escape Crossover Will Boost Gas Mileage, Drop V-6

Green Car Reports

The 2013 Ford Escape, the first entirely new design in more than a decade for its popular compact crossover, will be officially unveiled next month at the Los Angeles Auto Show. The 2013 Escape will be very similar to the Vertrek Concept that the company.

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Hydrogen is vital to Nikola’s rebrand. It wishes more money

Baua Electric

million in 2022, escape it with money and money equivalents of about $323 million. AJR Trucking, which carries mail for the USA Postal Carrier and strikes freight out and in of the ports of Los Angeles and Lengthy Seaside, has bought 50 hydrogen gas vehicles. million on revenues of $50.8

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Enterprise Rent-A-Car Adds 5,000 Hybrids to Nationwide Fleet

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Enterprise Rent-A-Car is adding approximately 5,000 additional gas/electric hybrids to its nationwide fleet and designating nearly 80 rental locations across the country as “hybrid branches.” The new hybrids will be available in 24 major markets across the country, including the 10 busiest airports for business travelers in the United States.

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BREAKING NEWS: Hermosa Beach To Become Carbon Neutral City! Acting Locally, Thinking Globally

Creative Greenius

Ever since the Copenhagen climate treaty talks ended in impotence two months ago there hasn’t been a single ounce of positive news on the international scene about our chances of cutting the world’s greenhouse gas emissions and getting CO2 levels back down to the safe 350 ppm zone. Our small size becomes an advantage.

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Psyche: NASA Mission to a Metal World

Cars That Think

When our solar system was very young, there were no planets—only a diffuse disk of gas and dust circled the sun. Some of those planetesimals, as astronomers call them, grew to be hundreds of kilometers across as they swept up more dust and gas within the swirling solar nebula. The Dawn spacecraft used solar-electric propulsion.

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