ford electric car Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:15:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Electrified Vehicles 25% of Ford’s Sales by 2020 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ford-electrified-vehicles-2020-20130325/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ford-electrified-vehicles-2020-20130325/#respond Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:15:26 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=35293 With the adoption of increasingly strict emissions laws, automakers are turning to electrified vehicles to push emissions down and increase fuel efficiency. According to the recent Corporate Average Fuel Economy [CAFE] laws passed in November, automakers will have to be producing vehicles that emit no more than 163g/mi of carbon dioxide. If this were to […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ford-electrified-vehicles-2020-20130325/feed/ 0 35293 Ford Undecided Where to Place Charging Sockets in Future EVs and Plug-In Hybrids https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ford-ev-charging-socket-20110601/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ford-ev-charging-socket-20110601/#respond Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:40:45 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=18917 Well... when the only remaining issue before producing electric cars isn't what battery they should use or what the charging technology will be, then for Ford it's where will they put the charging socket to satisfy most of the customers in Europe and the U.S.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ford-ev-charging-socket-20110601/feed/ 0 18917 Ford Giving Up on EVs? Not Quite, But They Focus on All Kinds of Technologies https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ford-electric-vehicle-give-up-20110307/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ford-electric-vehicle-give-up-20110307/#comments Mon, 07 Mar 2011 14:16:53 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=17414 One of the many things I learned in life is that people lose their dreams and never see them fulfilled just because they give up. So is the case with Ford, it seems, who is apparently a little circumspect at which technology to follow... at least for a while.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ford-electric-vehicle-give-up-20110307/feed/ 1 17414 Ford Unveils Electric and Hybrid C-Max at The Detroit International Auto Show https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ford-hybrids-detroit-auto-show-20110112/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ford-hybrids-detroit-auto-show-20110112/#respond Wed, 12 Jan 2011 14:00:17 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=16690 C-Max Energi and C-Max Hybrid are the latest MPVs (multi-purpose vehicles) presented by Ford at the Detroit International Auto Show. Judging from recent Ford history, it seems like the U.S. company specializes in family cars, as the wide range of options include the Ford Flex, Escape, Explorer and Edge, not to mention the Fusion, Fiesta or Focus models.

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