Between the year 2000 and 2012, Ford Motor Company’s own analysis of its environmental progress revealed it cut CO2 emissions by 37 percent. Looking at the decade and a half between 2010 and 2025, Ford says it expects to whittle back CO2 by an additional 30 percent. These results followed the company’s 14th annual Sustainability
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Ford Motor Company’s 1.0-liter EcoBoost gasoline engine was named today 2013 International Engine of the Year. This is the second straight year Ford’s three-cylinder engine has captured the award. The 1.0-liter EcoBoost – which Ford said combines direct fuel injection, turbocharging and variable valve timing to lower fuel consumption without sacrificing power – received the
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Ford is offering the American public a chance to experience directly both its turbocharged Ecoboost engines and its hybrid models. Ford is inviting potential customers across the country to put the automaker’s fuel efficient EcoBoost-powered vehicles to the test against its competitors while also getting the opportunity to drive the sporty Fiesta ST. While we
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Ford is it name, and hybrids are its new game. Actually, Ford Motor Co. has been engineering hybrid powertrains for many years now, but its newest family of U.S.-produced gas-electric cars has the company seriously stoked as it encroaches on Toyota’s former stronghold with sales records and conquest sales. The new lineup consists of the
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The Ford Fusion is the first global vehicle program from any automaker to use seat fabric made from recycled material, with the potential to recycle enough plastic bottles and post-industrial waste to make 1.5 million yards of fabric annually. Ford said that’s equivalent to between 800,000 and 900,000 yards in North America when the Fusion
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Ford is seeing a strong demand for many of its products, including its hybrids, and will increase production accordingly. Ford said it will add an additional 200,000 units of annual straight-time capacity this year. In addition, Ford said it will produce an extra 40,000 units by idling select plants for only one week during what
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The 2013 Ford Fusion Energi has earned the highest possible “five-star” Overall Vehicle Score from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The five-star rating is the U.S. Government’s highest-possible safety rating and is determined only after severe testing procedures as part of NHTSA’s New Car Assessment Program (NCAP), which combines vehicle performance in frontal
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AeroVironment, Inc. has been selected by Ford Motor Company as the preferred installation partner and authorized charging station supplier for the Ford Focus Electric, C-MAX Energi and Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid vehicles. Ford plug-in customers can now purchase a Ford-approved 240-volt charger and schedule a turnkey professional installation with a telephone call to AeroVironment. AeroVironment
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Ford’s Fusion and C-MAX hybrid models are attracting new commercial buyers searching for ways to save money at the pump. Ford said Con-way, Esurance, Quest Diagnostics and AT&T are among the latest companies to purchase Ford hybrid vehicles for their national fleets. Many of their regional employees are said to drive more than 24,000 miles
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As of yesterday, mobile app developers who want to help drivers better understand how they use fuel can submit their OpenXC-based apps to the Ford Personalized Fuel Efficiency App Challenge. The challenge runs through July 24, 2013. Later this summer a panel of judges will evaluate the submissions and award $50,000 in cash prizes for
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