Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

The new Mustang engine is one of nine new or upgraded engines or transmissions for 2011 model Ford, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles. The investment and jobs at Ford’s Cleveland Engine Plant No. 1 brings the company’s investment in powertrain engineering and facility upgrades in North America to $1.8 Cleveland Engine Plant No.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2013

A team at Ford Motor Company’s Research and Innovation Center in Dearborn conducted a detailed study of the effect of ethanol blend level in emissions, using a 2006 model Mercury Grand Marquis flexible fuel vehicle (FFV) operating on E0, E10, E20, E30, E40, E55, and E80 on a chassis dynamometer. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2010

The new premium midsize sedan hybrid joins the Ford Fusion and Escape Hybrids and Mercury Milan and Mariner Hybrids. The combined gasoline engine and electric motor provide 191 net horsepower (142 kW). SmartGauge with EcoGuide. Click to enlarge. Lincoln MKZ Hybrid.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 9, 2007

As I read in the San Jose Mercury News about California's flex-fuel fleet fiasco. a near silent electric trolley bus passes by my window on Haight St in San Francisco, an old technology tried, true, and spurned by the environmental "experts" of the present and recent past.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 20, 2010

Read more about it in the San Jose Mercury News Article: Reservations for the all-electric Nissan Leaf start Tuesday. By Dana Hull for the San Jose Mercury News. There are no tailpipe emissions, and the cost of the electricity to charge them is much cheaper than a tank of gasoline. “I want the Leaf to succeed.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2009

A new report from the National Research Council examines and, when possible, estimates, “hidden” costs of energy production and use—such as the damage air pollution imposes on human health—that are not reflected in market prices of coal, oil, other energy sources, or the electricity and gasoline produced from them. cents to about 1.7

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Ford has officially announced the second member of its turbocharged, gasoline direct-injection EcoBoost family, a 2.0-liter, 2010 Mercury Milan and Milan Hybrid. liter EcoBoost I-4 Ti-VCT. Click to enlarge. liter, four-cylinder version that will go on sale next year. 2010 Ford Fusion and Fusion Hybrid. 2010 Ford Flex with EcoBoost.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

Average monthly price of gasoline (all grades) is in green. During December 2008, which marked the nadir of the current price swing in gasoline with an average $1.687 per gallon (all grades), the new vehicle passenger car share had dropped to 47.3%. Monthly new vehicle share for cars and trucks. Click to enlarge. to 8,924 units.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 19, 2007

UCS advocates relentlessly for cleaner gasoline vehicles and dismisses plug-ins of all sorts, the Sierra Club strikes deals with Ford to promote a few thousand gasoline-dependent hybrids in exchange for advertising dollars, and the NRDC jumped on the biofuels bandwagon just as the cost of corn ethanol became impossible to ignore.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Gasoline may be averaging around $2.50 Hybrids from Ford , Honda , Lexus , Mazda , Mercury , Nissan , and Toyota dominated the ratings. a gallon right now, but gas mileage remains an important factor in choosing a new car. Now the EPA has released 2010 fuel efficiency figures for all new cars and trucks sold in the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2015

Compared with burning coal, natural gas emits about half the carbon dioxide and substantially less soot, mercury and sulfur. Such fuels could lower greenhouse gas emissions from transportation compared with gasoline and diesel fuel. —Mark Zoback, a professor of geophysics and NGI’s director.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

A year ago Ford nabbed a significant endorsement from the Sierra Club for its limited edition Mercury Mariner hybrid (29/35 mpg - gasoline only) and a promise of 250,000 hybrids by 2010. Ford has now done an abrupt about face. Ethanol is the alternative fuels flavor of the month, and Ford jumped on GM’s yellow bandwagon.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 18, 2024

Honda beat everybody to the production gasoline-electric hybrid game in the United States, putting the Insight in showrooms in 1999. Toyota followed with the Prius a year later, but it took GM until 2006 to introduce its first true gasoline-electric hybrid here.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

As part of an aggressive deployment strategy for improving fuel efficiency across its product line-up in the near-to medium-term, Ford will offer its first-generation turbocharged, gasoline direct-injection EcoBoost engines ( earlier post ) in 90% of its product lineup by 2013. Ford hosted Green Car Congress for the Dearborn briefing.].

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

With average gasoline prices (all grades) remaining down from their highs in mid-2008, light trucks continued to outsell cars in January 2009. Ford, Lincoln and Mercury sales totaled 90,596 in January, down 38.9% Year-on-year sales of passenger cars dropped 36.3% to 315,863 units in January, while sales of light trucks dropped 37.8%

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Setec Powerr

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The 6kW Wattstation, introduced in 1910, was the earliest prototype of charging equipment for electric cars, and the mercury rectifier was still used to convert AC to DC. When these cars ran out of power, the battery was usually removed from the car and installed back in the vehicle after charging in the Battery room. Corner of Battery Room.

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 16, 2024

All-New, All-Electric Midsize SUV The all-new 2024 Honda Prologue should be a comfortable transition for loyal Honda owners going from gasoline to their first all-electric car. One of the key elements for this loyalty is Honda’s reliability, which the Prologue should have even though it is a new model.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

metals such as mercury, cadmium, lead and hexavalent chrome) that pose a known threat to health or the environment. When one thinks about what automakers can do to help the environment, the immediate thought is about improving fuel efficiency and developing alternatives to gasoline. SOCs are chemical (e.g., solvents) or materials (e.g.,

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Dont PHEVs just shift pollution from gasoline cars to power plants? The enthusiasm for ethanol ("flex-fuel" cars use E85, which is 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline) is welcome. We try to be careful to emphasize in the fine print that PHEVs can get over 100 miles/gallon of gasoline , PLUS electric costs of about 1-2 cents/mile.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Company says its focusing on gasoline and hydrogen. USA Today ) 10/25/06 DaimlerChrysler is downright reluctant, even though it has built four test models, commercial-size vans that run on gasoline and electricity. San Jose Mercury News ). Hybrid Sonata model year 2011, possible PHEV version in 2013. No announced plans.

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Plug In Partners

MARCH 3, 2008

gasoline use but could increase deadly air pollution in some areas, two reports say. Mercury is toxic. " Here is the headline and the lead: Plug-in cars could actually increase air pollution By James R. Healey , USA TODAY The expected introduction of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles could cut U.S.

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Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

Just like, say, Ford—which was then in the process of killing Mercury, to leave it with only Ford and Lincoln. Production of the gasoline Equinox at CAMI will end in April, and the first Zevo 600s should come off the lines seven months later, in November. The company has committed $800 million to that conversion.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 25, 2024

billion metric tons of carbon pollution through 2047 – equivalent to preventing the annual emissions of 328 million gasoline cars or nearly an entire year of US electric power sector emissions. Coal powered around 16% of US electricity in 2023. The rule is projected to reduce 1.38

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