Green Car Reports

MARCH 11, 2022

Rivian reveals some technology news and lowers its production plans. Ford and PG&E aim to study how the Lightning electric truck could support the grid. And Toyota’s driver-assist system debuts for the brand in the Mirai. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Ford revealed the production version of the new Transit Custom plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) at IAA Commercial Vehicle show in Hannover, Germany. The Transit Custom PHEV targets an all-electric driving range of 50 kilometers (31 miles), and uses the multi-award-winning Ford 1.0-liter

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. And EV owners would become entrepreneurs, selling electricity back to the grid. And indeed, that’s how promoters of vehicle-to-grid technology perceive the EV.

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Teslarati

APRIL 3, 2023

Ford said this morning that it is poised to meet its lofty electric vehicle production goals for 2023 and 2026 while reiterating its goals to have EVs make up half of its sales volume by the end of the decade. Credit: Ford Ford has had its struggles in early EV production, which have made things difficult at times.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Ford Motor Company and Newlab announced the five startups that will participate in the inaugural cohort of the Mobility Studio—a new program focused on supporting the advancement of technologies, product collaborations and business models that drive a cleaner transportation future.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2009

The Ford PHEV charge settings user interface. Ford Motor Company has developed an intelligent vehicle-to-grid communications and control system for its plug-in hybrid electric vehicles that communicates directly with the electric grid. Bill Ford, Ford’s executive chairman. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 17, 2022

Ford, General Motors (GM), and BMW announced earlier this week that they would partner with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) to roll out an EV charging scheduling program. The electric grid is undergoing significant change right now. To address this, Ford, GM, BMW, and SMUD are working together to schedule EV charging.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2019

Researchers at MIT and the Ford Motor Company have found that depending on the location, lightweight conventional vehicles could have a lower lifecycle greenhouse gas impact than electric vehicles, at least in the near term. By contrast, the extensive Ford data provided “a broader cross-section of drivers and driving conditions.”.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 27, 2022

Unlike those you may have grown accustomed to seeing, many of these stations don’t just charge electric cars—they can also send power from vehicle batteries to the local utility grid for use by homes and businesses. Debates over the feasibility and value of such vehicle-to-grid technology go back decades. This is good for the grid.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2013

Separately, Ford Motor Company and KB Home announced that products from the Ford-led initiative MyEnergi Lifestyle ( earlier post ) will be featured in the homebuilder’s ZeroHouse 2.0 This marks the first time these products have been used by a production homebuilder. model home in San Marcos, Calif., ZeroHouse 2.0

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Teslarati

MARCH 4, 2022

Ford and University of Michigan researchers conducted a new study that evaluated the savings in greenhouse gas emissions in battery-electric pickup trucks relative to gas-powered pickups. Ford is one of the most committed automotive companies in terms of transitioning to electrification.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Siemens Energy Management Division has teamed with Duke Energy and Ford to demonstrate the results of an 18-month effort to reduce the cost and expand electric vehicle charging technologies. —Barry Powell, head of Siemens Low Voltage & Products. Held at the Duke Energy Envision Center in Erlanger, Ky., Appliance connection.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 24, 2023

Ford CEO Jim Farley took to social media on Tuesday to announce that the automaker is reversing a decision to remove AM radio from its vehicles. We’ve decided to include it on all 2024 Ford and Lincoln vehicles,” Farley stated on Twitter and LinkedIn. Edward Markey, D-Mass.,

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Cars That Think

MARCH 18, 2022

Starting this year, thousands of battery-powered electric drive Volkswagen vehicles capable of both loading and offloading current—bidirectional charging, as industry calls it—have been rolling off production lines in eastern Germany. A side benefit could be plugging in appliances to the car while camping rough. feet) of torque.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Ford and Sunrun are working together to create a home energy storage solution that’s centered around the F-150 Lightning. These include the 80-amp Ford Charge Station Pro and Home Integration System, which would allow the all-electric truck to store and supply power to a home. Don’t hesitate to contact us with news tips.

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Teslarati

APRIL 25, 2022

The announcement included a slight nod to its perceived competitor, the Ford F-150 Lightning, with the line: “Time to steal the thunder.” In addition, the STLA Frame architecture may also offer vehicle-to-grid and vehicle-to-load functions. The RAM EV will compete with the F-150 Lightning from fellow legacy automaker Ford.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2014

Ford Motor Company is teaming with DTE Energy to build Michigan’s largest solar array at Ford World Headquarters. The project, funded by DTE Energy, will provide employees with 360 covered parking spaces and 30 charging stations for plug-in electric vehicles such as the company’s Ford Fusion Energi and C-MAX Hybrid Energi.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 3, 2023

Ford has said it will restart F-150 Lightning production. And will wireless bidirectional charging help make Tesla vehicles more useful at home and to the grid? The Kia EV9 will make its debut this month. EV owners are driving farther per day. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2010

Canada-based Rapid Electric Vehicles (REV) has begun production of four converted electric bi-directional charging Ancillary Power Vehicles (APVs) ( earlier post ) as part of the US Army Tank Automotive Research Development Engineering Center (TARDEC) Micro-Grid project at Wheeler Air Base, Hawaii.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

To ease the move to electric models Ford is launching the Pro pilot program that will add preproduction E-Transit vans to select fleets. Production E-Transits are planned to go on sale at dealerships in early 2022. Penske Truck Leasing and National Grid are the first two companies that will add those E-Transits to their fleets.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Australian manufacturer Roev plans to do just that from 2023 by converting Toyota Hiluxes and Ford Rangers to electric, with conversions priced from $47,990. Roev will remove the ICE from Toyota Hiluxes and Ford Rangers and replace them with an electric motor and batteries.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2016

PARC, a Xerox company, is collaborating with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Ford Motor Company in a DOE-funded project that will use PARC’s novel CoEx printing technology ( earlier post ) to fabricate thick, higher energy and higher power battery electrodes with the end goal of enabling longer range and low cost electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Ford Motor Company has named the first markets that will sell the Focus Electric, Ford’s all-electric passenger car: Atlanta; Austin and Houston, Texas; Boston; Chicago; Denver; Detroit; Los Angeles; San Francisco; San Diego; New York; Orlando, Fla.; Last month, Ford launched a new educational Web site on electric vehicles ( [link] ).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2014

In an event in San Francisco, Ford Motor Company and Samsung SDI, an affiliate of Samsung Group, outlined several collaborative research efforts on next-generation battery technology for non-hybrid vehicles. Ford suggested the dual battery system might go into production soon. Lead-acid (left) and Li-ion battery (right).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2020

The Guidehouse Insights Leaderboard Grid. Rivian is a first mover in the North American pickup truck market and has secured significant partners and investors including Ford and Amazon, while NIO has produced the most vehicles of all competitors and has innovated solutions for battery swapping and mobile charging services.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2015

At Consumer Electronics Show Asia, Ford launched a strategic collaboration with Haier (home appliance), Trina Solar (solar power) and Delta Electronics (power management) to introduce MyEnergi Lifestyle ( earlier post ) to China, a holistic approach for lowering the energy costs and carbon footprint of Chinese families.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2016

A team from Ford’s Research and Innovation Center and LG Chem’s Corporate R&D group has reported the first cradle-to-gate (i.e., the factory gate—before delivery to the consumer) emissions assessment for a mass-produced battery in a commercial battery electric vehicle (BEV)—the lithium-ion battery pack used in the Ford Focus BEV.

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Teslarati

APRIL 27, 2024

. “Rivian exists to address two specific needs, the electrification of our transportation system and supporting the transition of our power grid to carbon-free energy sources,” said Paul Frey, Vice President of Battery, Charging, and Adventure Products at Rivian. ” Electrons for all!

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NOVEMBER 22, 2022

As more consumers purchase electric vehicles in the coming decades, a huge question is plaguing governments and the auto industry: Can the grid keep up with the dramatic increase in demand for electricity? Simply put, V2G allows energy to flow in both directions, both from the grid to the vehicle and from the vehicle to the grid.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2022

High production volume is assumed unless explicitly specified. The electricity mix used in stationary processes (unless otherwise specified) comes from the 2035 US grid generation mix projected by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) in the Annual Energy Outlook (AEO) 2021. Fuel production pathways considered.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2011

The primary element of one of Michigan’s largest solar power generation systems at Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant is now up and running. The system is the result of collaboration between Ford, DTE Energy, Xtreme Power, the city of Wayne and the state of Michigan.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2009

Prior to his current position, Tinskey led Ford’s product planning and product management activities for hybrids and for developing and implementing the electric vehicle strategy announced last January ( earlier post ). Right now we’re just making sure we get the product right, it’s a quality product, and it works.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2016

million seed funding round, led by Motus Ventures and including investment from Ford Motor Company, Wicklow Capital, StartX Stanford and Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang’s AME Cloud Ventures. Civil Maps’ technology hashes each location in a grid framework that corrects distortion errors and relines the object’s position to its true mean.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2010

Ford, Detroit Edison and Xtreme Power are teaming up to establish one of Michigan’s largest solar power generation systems and electric vehicle charging stations at Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich. Ford will work with Detroit Edison to install a 500 kW solar photovoltaic panel system at Michigan Assembly.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 30, 2023

While GM has publicly stated that its future EVs will have only the NACS connector, Ford consistently declines to answer that question directly, repeating only, “Ford is transitioning to NACS starting in 2025. That leaves Stellantis—it has announced several battery-electric vehicles for the US, but none are in production today.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Delta Products Corporation demonstrated its latest smart Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE) as part of the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) 3-year program that Delta was awarded in 2012, targeting to reduce 50% of EV charging system cost compared to today’s technologies. Earlier post.).

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Toyota has announced that it will work with Oncor, a Texas-based electric utility, on vehicle-to-grid technology that may compete with Tesla’s Virtual Power Plant. Tesla has sparked new interest in energy products since its launch of the Tesla Powerwall.

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