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Four Ford Dealers To Test Solar & Wind Clean-Energy Systems

Green Car Reports

As fuel economy slowly rises across its entire range, Ford is looking to lower the environmental impact of the dealerships that sell its greenest cars as well. The company announced today a pilot program that will put solar-and-wind clean-energy systems into four of its dealerships.

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Ford dealerships to go green with wind and solar

Green Cars News

Ford is greening up some of its dealerships in the US, installing wind and solar systems to generate clean electricity to keep the lights on and power electric car charging points. Now with a range of two plug-in hybrids and one fully electric car, the firm is exploring green electricity too, to e[.].

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Ford, Volkswagen, and GM Explore EV-Powered Houses

Cars That Think

No less an auto industry titan as Ford has also made bidirectional charging a selling point of their F-150 Lightning electric truck, reportedly slated to roll off the lines this year. The pickup boasts 563 horsepower, does zero to 60 in four seconds and wields 1050 Newton-meters (775 lb. feet) of torque.

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Ford Europe leading project investigating DME and OME1 as low carbon, near zero particulate fuels; power-to-liquids pathways using CO2

Green Car Congress

Ford Motor Company is leading a €3.5-million Both ethers, which will in the project power cars based on the Ford Mondeo, offer the potential for extremely low particulate emissions and enhanced fuel efficiency. —Andreas Schamel, Ford’s director Global Powertrain Research & Advanced Engineering. million (US$3.9-million)

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DOE awards $3.9M to 13 projects using high performance computing in manufacturing; Ford, LanzaTech

Green Car Congress

Among the awardees were Ford Motor Company and LanzaTech. Ford Motor Company will partner with ANL to study the effect of dimensional tolerances on the cylinder-to-cylinder variation in engine performance in a project titled “CFD Study of Impact of Part-to-Part Variations on Spark-Ignition Engine Charge Formation.”.

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Ford launches Hsuehshan Tunnel Transformer Challenge in Taiwan; Mobility Challenge Series 2.0

Green Car Congress

Building on the success of Ford’s Innovate Mobility Challenge Series (IMCS) 1.0 in 2014 ( earlier post ), Ford has launched the Hsuehshan Tunnel Transformer Challenge in Taiwan, which asks developers to submit traffic-busting solutions for the main highway artery between Taipei and popular tourist destination Yilan.

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Remy to supply HVH250 motors to Quantum for F-150 PHEV program

Green Car Congress

Quantum will use the motors in its Ford F-150 PHEV program to convert the gasoline powered light-duty pickup trucks to plug-in hybrid operation. Quantum will install the Remy HVH250 electric machine as the traction motor into a parallel hybrid system that delivers an all-electric range of 35 miles and a hybrid operational range of 400 miles.

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