Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2017

Qualcomm is introducing the Qualcomm Drive Data Platform to collect and analyze intelligently information from a vehicle’s sensors.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Today, the outgoing Obama administration aims to quickly enact more green-car rules, the next Hyundai hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle may get a boost in range over the current Tucson Fuel Cell, and a second-generation Ford Fusion Hybrid autonomous prototype will begin testing in the new year.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 15, 2016

The 2017 Ford Fusion, unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show, enters its fifth model year with what the industry calls a mid-cycle refresh: a few styling updates, some new standard equipment, and changes to trim levels. The mid-size sedan's hybrid and plug-in hybrid models too benefit from those changes, but electric-car buyers have wondered if the. Green Auto Show Plug-In Hybrids

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 10, 2017

Ford made a big splash last year when it announced it would launch 13 new electrified vehicles within five years. That was widely misreported as 13 new "electric" vehicles, which is to say either battery-electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles—which isn't the case. It includes conventional hybrids as well. Today, Ford announced the second of the. police Police car

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 29, 2016

If you see a Ford Fusion Hybrid mid-size sedan cruising along with no apparent input from the driver, rest assured that you are not hallucinating. Since 2013, Ford has used modified Fusion Hybrid sedans to test autonomous-driving technology. The automaker is now rolling out an updated version, which will form the basis for a larger fleet of test. Detroit Auto Show Autonomous cars CES self-driving cars

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 2, 2013

The 2013 Ford Fusion Hybrid is the second of Ford's two hybrid models, both all-new for 2013. The Fusion Hybrid, unlike the C-Max Hybrid compact hatchback, is a four-door mid-size sedan aimed right at the heart of a high-volume market segment. Competitors for the Fusion lineup include the Toyota Camry, Honda Accord, Hyundai Sonata, Chevrolet

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 7, 2016

DON'T MISS: 2017 Ford Fusion. In many ways, California is unlike the rest of the country. That is particularly true when it comes to green cars, which Californians buy with enthusiasm not seen in other states. Hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and battery-electric cars typically sell in much larger volumes in the Golden State than anywhere else in the U.S. Plug-In Hybrids California plug-in cars

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

DON''T MISS: Ford Cuts Gas Mileage On 6 Models: What You Need To Know, And Open Questions To fight back, the 2016 Ford Fusion Hybrid and Fusion It''s well known that sales of hybrid cars rise and fall in line with gas prices. In recent months, that''s led to lower sales for hybrids as gasoline falls to $2 per gallon or less in many parts of the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2015

Advances in magnet technology have enabled researchers at MIT to propose a new design for a practical compact tokamak fusion reactor that might be realized in as little as a decade: the ARC (affordable, robust, compact) reactor. The design point has a plasma fusion gain of Q p ≈ 13.6,

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 15, 2016

Today, the company that sold the most plug-in electric cars worldwide in 2015 isn't one of the usual suspects, the 2017 Ford Fusion Hybrid and Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid get some updates, and Panasonic commits $1.6 billion to the Tesla battery "Gigafactory." All this and more on Green Car Reports. Improvements to battery cells will allow the. Today in Car News

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National Green Transportation

APRIL 2, 2012

Ford announced today the Ford Fusion would a new way to save on high gasoline prices while reducing the environmental impact of driving a gasoline powered car.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 27, 2015

Carbon guilt weighed heavily on my mind as I approached the car rental counter at the Salt Lake City Airport. The book I was reading on the plane (Sustainable Energy, by David JC Mackay) suggested that my portion of the energy for the round-trip plane ride from Boston and back would amount to roughly 12,000 kilowatt-hours. That is roughly equal to. Rental vacations energy security Fuel Economy Car rental

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Professor George Miley of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and director of its Fusion Studies Lab, reported on progress toward a “cold fusion battery”—a small power unit that uses a low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) (i.e., Miley’s presentation was part of a larger cold fusion topic focus within the larger ACS national meeting. The cold fusion symposium included nearly 50 papers describing research and discoveries on the topic.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 4, 2014

Light weight will soon be big business at Ford. The company''s F-150 truck, going aluminum for the first time with the 2015 model, sheds 700 lbs over its predecessor, thanks to its new construction. Ford sells over half a million F-Series every year--big business indeed. This technology and other lightweight materials could also be used to cut the

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

CHECK OUT: 2013 Ford Fusion Hybrid: Quick Winter Gas Mileage Test (Mar 2013) After a customer complained of problems. Here's a riddle to consider. When is it a good thing for a hybrid car to burn more gasoline? The answer, at least according to Ford Canada, is when the hybrid in question is driven in a cold climate, but only for short distances. Maintenance Canada

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 19, 2014

The 2015 Ford Fusion sedan now has a simplified lineup of engines, and all of them continue to have just four cylinders--but one has gotten smaller. Time was when mid-size sedans routinely came with V-6 engines of 3.0 liters. But these days, those are rare and expensive high-end options--if they''re even offered at all. When the redesigned

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 4, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: Nissan''s plug-in hybrid plans, a bill to permit Tesla Motors'' direct sales model in New Jersey, and the Ford Fusion Lightweight concept points toward more-efficient cars. All this and more on Green Car Reports. An update on plug-in electric car sales for May, including the first sales numbers for the 2014 BMW i3

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Green Car Reports

JULY 3, 2014

We''ve got used to seeing plug-in car sales inexorably rising over the last few years. Different models sell at different rates of course, but when one or two cars each month hit some kind of individual sales record, the growth is rarely remarkable. But every so often we''re taken by surprise by one car''s performance. This month, it''s that of the

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

Keep your eyes peeled for the new 2013 Cadillac XTS – which will include the first application of a Driver Assistance Package from General Motors, using sensor fusion. The new system uses heterogeneous sensors and positioning technologies to aid drivers in their efforts to avoid crashes by pinpointing road hazards. It is seen as a [.]. general motors Green cars Latest news Cadillac Cadillac XTS General Motors green cars safety

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Green Car Reports

MAY 31, 2016

Today, we have more details on the 2017 Ford Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid, a date for the grand opening of Tesla's battery "gigafactory" in Nevada, and hints that Apple may sell electric-car charging stations. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Catch up on last week's major news with our Week in Reverse feature. We have more details on the. Today in Car News

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 28, 2014

With highway economy of 36 mpg, the 2015 Chrysler 200 isn''t the most fuel-efficient vehicle we''ve written about recently, but it has an important job to do. The old model, despite being widely loathed by anyone forced to rent one at airport desks around the country, sold in large numbers in the U.S. In 2013, it topped 122,000 units and in 2012

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Green Cars News

MAY 21, 2013

Well, it''s time to think again if the standards of the Ford Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid (pictured) are to be followed. Worried that the latest generation of alternative fuel vehicles can''t possibly match the safety standards of today''s vehicles?

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 16, 2012

Now that we're back from the Detroit Auto Show, we can say with confidence that the two most important cars of the show were the 2013 Ford Fusion and the 2013 Dodge Dart. The 2013 Fusion in particular got rave reviews for its styling--which blended elements of Audi A7 and even a hint of Aston-Martin sports car in the grille forms--and high hopes

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Green Car Reports

MAY 17, 2012

The online series Jay Leno’s Garage usually plays host to exotic supercars and brawny muscle cars but in the latest episode two of Ford’s greenest models, the 2012 Focus Electric and upcoming 2013 Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid, are featured.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 2, 2012

Ford has announced pricing for the stop-start system on the 2013 Ford Fusion. Usually a system fitted to hybrid vehicles, the Fusion is the first non-hybrid midsize sedan available with stop-start technology, which cuts the engine at a standstill to save gas. Ford claims the system improves real-world fuel efficiency by about 3.5 percent overall

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2016

As part of its LiDAR sensor development, Ford has tested Fusion Hybrid autonomous research vehicles in complete darkness without headlights on desert roads, demonstrating the capability to perform beyond the limits of human drivers.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 3, 2012

The all-new Ford Fusion has been crowned the 2013 Green Car of the Year at the Los Angeles Auto Show. Ford Ford Fusion green car of the year Los Angeles Auto Show

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Green Car Reports

MAY 24, 2012

One of the most anticipated cars of the year is the 2013 Ford Fusion, which will be attempting to cater to a much wider audience than the current model thanks to the introduction of three separate variants: regular gas, hybrid and plug-in hybrid. While the plug-in hybrid, or Energi as Ford likes to call it, won’t be available at this

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 30, 2014

When it comes to mid-size sedans with multiple options for green powertrain, the 2015 Ford Fusion and 2015 Hyundai Sonata are fairly well matched. Both offer base naturally-aspirated engines, two turbocharged engines of similar displacements, and hybrid models. Ford and Hyundai have also both eschewed V-6es, using only four-cylinder engines, in

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 30, 2011

The Ford Fusion Hybrid mid-size sedan was Ford's second hybrid vehicle after the Escape Hybrid crossover. The Fusion Hybrid, launched early in 2009 as a 2010 model, was a sensation. It handily beat the gas mileage of the competing Toyota Camry Hybrid, with ratings of 41 mpg city and 36 mpg highway, and its user information displays in the large

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2012

Ford is offering the Auto Start-Stop system on its new non-hybrid 2013 Fusion equipped with a 1.6-liter EcoBoost engine ( earlier post ) for $295. We expect the average Fusion driver with the 1.6-liter EcoBoost engine and Auto Start-Stop will save about $1,100 more than other midsize sedan owners during five years of driving. —Samantha Hoyt, Fusion marketing manager. Fuel-economy includes: 2013 Fusion 1.6-liter EcoBoost: projected 37 mpg highway.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 11, 2017

So what did it take to fashion a standard Ford Fusion Hybrid sedan into the 2018 Ford Police Responder Hybrid Sedan that Ford introduced yesterday? The hybrid mid-size sedans sold today by Chevrolet, Ford, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, and Toyota are all tuned to provide maximum fuel economy. The company's press release was coy with actual technical. Police car Police Interceptor

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 9, 2012

The current Ford Fusion has been a big success for Ford, so there are high expectations for the new model. As with the Ford Focus, the new Fusion, unveiled at Detroit, will also be sold in Europe. We revealed all the details of the new Fusion yesterday, and today we're able to bring you a full live Over there, it'll be known as the Ford Mondeo.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 17, 2013

That noise you heard yesterday afternoon? That was the sound of the other shoe dropping. Ford said yesterday that it will "enhance the on-road fuel economy performance" of the 77,000 2013 hybrid models it''s sold over the last year, in an effort to "improve customer satisfaction." The announcement is a response to widespread press reports--on this

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Green Car Reports

MAY 21, 2013

The 2013 Ford Fusion Energi, the plug-in hybrid variant of Ford''s midsize offering, is the latest to join that list, with a top five-star score from the National Highway Traffic The belief that electric cars must somehow perform badly in crashes is slowly being eroded, with many well-known examples scoring well in crash tests around the world.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories’ Z pulsed-power accelerator have produced a significant output of fusion neutrons, using a method fully functioning for only little more than a year. Vesey (2012) “High-Gain Magnetized Inertial Fusion,” Phys.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 5, 2012

The new 2013 Ford Fusion is stunning on the street; it may well be the best-looking mid-size sedan on the market. And it comes with no fewer than five different powertrains, all of them as or more fuel efficient as those in the previous Fusion sedan. The first Fusion in 2005 started to re-establish Ford's presence in mid-size sedans, and sales

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2015

ZF TRW also has just launched its first production passenger car and commercial vehicle radar and camera fusion systems. ZF TRW announced the initial contracts for its next-generation camera system—the S-Cam4 family—with a major European manufacture, with deliveries to begin in 2018.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 8, 2012

Unlike most cars, the current Ford Fusion is selling better now than it has at any time during its eight-year model run. That's a great lead-in for Ford, which is launching the all-new 2013 Ford Fusion at the Detroit Auto Show. With a sleeker design, a choice of three four-cylinder engines, plus not only a hybrid but a plug-in hybrid model--the

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 30, 2013

Ten years ago, your choice of hybrid vehicles was pretty limited. A lot has changed in those ten years, and the rise of Ford as a real force in the hybrid markets is one of the biggest changes. 2004 saw the launch of its very first hybrid, the 2005 Escape Hybrid, and the maker''s cars have gone from strength to strength ever since. But what do you

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