Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2023

Project partners include: University of Bristol, Customer Interconnect Ltd, API Capacitors Ltd. FCVGEN2.0 – Ford Motor Company Ltd. £8 This research project will design and develop a hydrogen fuel cell-powered version of the Ford Transit van, with a Ford Dagenham estate facility re-purposed for upfitting of the vehicle.

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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

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The Responsible Battery Coalition, in partnership with the University of Michigan Center for Sustainable Systems, launched a comprehensive research project to compare the total cost of ownership of gas and electric vehicles (EVs). Gregory Keoleian, Director of the Center for Sustainable Systems at the University of Michigan.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Ford Motor Company and the University of Michigan are working together on a project to accelerate the development of future hybrid vehicles. Researchers are analyzing data from 2,500 road trips to determine how internal electronic vehicle controls could be tweaked to further improve fuel efficiency and fun-to-drive attributes.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2013

Following on the launch of its first software developer program ( earlier post ), Ford is now turning its attention to the growing trend in hardware hacking by transforming vehicles into an experimental development environment. Ford is committed to innovating with the help of software and now hardware developers.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Ford Motor Company is teaming with the University of Detroit Mercy (UDM) to retrain its traditional automotive engineers, providing them with the skills and expertise to develop the next generation of advanced electric and hybrid vehicles. Approximately 125 Ford engineers will participate in the program over the next several years.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

International energy company Statoil and the University of Texas at Austin (UT) have signed an Energy Partnership agreement providing the university with an annual funding of US$1 million for 5 years. Of these, eight are with Norwegian institutions and three are international.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Ford and the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) are partnering on a competition for undergraduate students to develop innovative applications that enhance vehicle safety and sustainability by using vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications. The competition is hosted by UMTRI.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2013

Ford has begun a three-year. Petersburg Polytechnic University in Russia in its association with that country’s space industry. Oleg Gusikhin, technical leader in systems analytics for Ford. Eurobot can be controlled from Earth or from a station located, for example, on the International Space Station.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2022

A new University of Michigan study finds that making the switch to all-electric mail-delivery vehicles would lead to far greater reductions in greenhouse gas emissions than previously estimated by the US Postal Service (USPS). The work was supported by Ford Motor Co. Earlier post.). billion for infrastructure to support those vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Ford Motor Company and St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University have reached the final phase of a large-scale, three-year research project aimed at enhancing vehicle communication technology. — Oleg Gusikhin, technical leader, Advanced Connected Services, Ford Research & Advanced Engineering“. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2015

Ford has opened its new Research and Innovation Center Palo Alto, growing its global research team and accelerating the company’s work in connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, customer experience and big data. At Ford, we view ourselves as both a mobility and an auto company, as we drive innovation in every part of our business.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2014

million hours on Titan to a project led by ORNL with Ford and Convergent Science as co-investigators. ORNL/Ford/Convergent. This project, led by Charles Finney from ORNL, is simulating cyclic variability in dilute internal combustion engine operation to develop a method that identifies combustion instability. Click to enlarge.

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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

MAY 27, 2022

Rice University chemists working with researchers at the Ford Motor Company are turning plastic parts from end-of-life vehicles into graphene via the university’s flash Joule heating process ( earlier post ). Ford sent us 10 pounds of mixed plastic waste from a vehicle shredding facility. That’s with only 0.1% Wyss et al.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 5, 2010

Ford is starting EV trials in Germany. For more details, follow the link … Ford Plans to Start Electric-Car Tests in Germany Next Month. “Ford Motor Co. The drivers will include researchers and customers selected by Ford, Dudenhoeffer said today in a telephone interview. 28 (Bloomberg) — Ford Motor Co.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2012

The new Ford Fusion will be the first non-hybrid Ford vehicle available in the US with Auto Start-Stop. In its quest to keep the system very affordable, Ford wanted to keep the supporting battery a 12V battery, but also didn’t want to compromise durability, said Birgit Sorgenfrei, Ford’s Auto Start-Stop program manager.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2021

A new $2-million project at the University of Michigan aims to develop easier and more cost-effective ways to make recyclable lightweight automotive sheet metals. The Clean Sheet Project will provide these insights and we are excited to join the University of Michigan and other partners in participating. —Daniel Cooper.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2010

The introduction of electric vehicles on a large scale in the UK can only have a beneficial effect on CO 2 emissions if low-carbon electricity, universal broadband provision and smart grids are in place to support the transition, according to a new report published by the UK Royal Academy of Engineering. Dr Chris Brace, Bath University.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

Ford Motor Company is leading a €3.5-million million) research project to investigate the use of alternative fuels that could offer customers the power and performance of modern internal combustion engines with environmental benefits comparable to an electric vehicle. million (US$3.9-million) —Lumpp et al.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

recently entered into a five-year agreement with Western Michigan University (WMU) to invest in and jointly staff a 1,000-square-foot testing lab to focus on hybrid drive systems for commercial and military vehicles. Eaton Corp. WMU also will provide faculty advisors and technicians.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

In an announcement on Wednesday, the University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia stated that it would be recruiting Tesla owners across the globe to analyze if the all-electric vehicles’ spare battery capacity could be utilized to support the energy grid — and perhaps even power homes in the near future.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

At CES 2015 in January, Ford CEO Mark Fields announced “Ford Smart Mobility”—a plan to use innovation to take Ford to the next level in connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, the customer experience and big data. Ford did write the software that did the analysis of the sensor data. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Asplundh, an international provider of vegetation management services to utilities and municipalities, is one of the first in its industry to adopt propane autogas for some of the medium-duty trucks in its fleet. Currently, Asplundh has two Ford F-650 trucks powered by ROUSH CleanTech propane autogas fuel systems.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2011

The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) together with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) announced that five research teams have been awarded a total of C$12.5

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

SAE International has published the first global standard that specifies, in a single document, both the electric vehicle and supply equipment (EVSE) ground-system requirements for wireless charging of electric vehicles (EV). 11-kW Universal Ground Assembly. —Jesse Schneider. Thereafter, vehicle systems were to be tested.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

The Research Foundation for The SUNY Stony Brook University. University of Delaware. University of Maryland. Rationally Designed Lithium Ion Batteries Towards Displacing Internal Combustion Engines. Marquette University. Washington State University. Colorado State University. Purdue University.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 4, 2022

He left there in 1966 to join the University of Cambridge as an assistant director of research. He earned his bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering in 1958 from the University of Bristol , in England. He worked at the university at the time of his death. where he continued his networking work.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2016

The International Transport Forum (ITF) at the OECD has launched a major global initiative towards carbon-free transport. Transport activity currently contributes 23% of global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels, with the share expected to rise.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 21, 2023

According to local media , an audit stemming from an internal investigation has apparently uncovered a scheme in which troopers faked upwards of 26,000 tickets over a seven-year period. Image: Ford] Become a& TTAC& insider. That sound you hear is lawmakers and the public alike clamoring for answers. We plan to stay tuned.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2016

The technical papers presented this year include: “Effect of road-induced vibration on gas-tightness of vehicular fuel cell stack” (2016-01-1186) Dong Hao, Yongping Hou, Tongji University; Jianping Shen, Shanghai Motor Vehicle Inspection Center; Liying Ma, Tongji University.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2021

Methane (CH 4 ) is in abundance at the Port of Corpus Christi due to direct connections to the Permian Basin and Eagle Ford Shale production fields. Academics from the University of Texas at Austin have mapped the geology of the Texas Gulf Coast and have determined this region is suited for injection and storage of pressurized CO 2.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2016

Paice ( earlier post ), an early developer of hybrid vehicle technology, has filed a complaint against the Volkswagen Group with the US International Trade Commission (ITC). Paice has now licensed all or part of its hybrid vehicle technology portfolio to Toyota, Hyundai/Kia, and Ford.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 3, 2021

CTU ] Carnegie Mellon University's Iris rover is bolted in and ready for its journey to the moon. ETH Zurich ] Cassie Blue autonomously navigates on the second floor of the Ford Robotics Building at the University of Michigan. The tiny rover passed a huge milestone on Wednesday, Dec. metre-tall green architectural sculpture. [

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2016

The move is part of an expansion of an innovative program designed to drive the future of mobility, announced the University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship, in partnership with the U-M Mobility Transformation Center. Several students continued work over the summer as Zendrive interns. Ford has also taken a stake.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

International Data Corp. The standard was inspired by the findings of the AI and Procurement: A Primer report from the New York University Center for Responsible AI. Government Accountability Office , the World Economic Forum , and the Ford Foundation cover AI literacy, best practices, and red flags for vetting technology vendors.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Researchers from the University of Bath Powertrain and Vehicle Research Centre (PVRC) in the UK have received a total of £3.2 The current vehicle facility has served our research needs well for the past decade and we have undertaken ground breaking work for a host of companies including Ford and Jaguar Landrover. million (US$5.1

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