Ford F-150 News
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In order to improve the aerodynamics of new vehicles—and boost their highway gas mileage—automotive engineers have looked to a new series of seemingly minor features that add up to meaningful gains in EPA ratings. One of them is the active grille shutters that have become increasingly common in vehicles as diverse as the 2013 Ford Escape EcoBoost 1.6 to the Chevrolet Cruze Eco, and even the 2013 Ram 1500. Simply put, they allow more air under the hood only when it’s needed for cooling, only when it’s needed, and they otherwise direct air away from the hood. Now, in the...
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Ford May Use More Aluminum In Next F-150 To Improve Gas MileagePickup trucks aren't typically the apple of the gas miser's eye, drinking their fair share and then some, all too often used for anything but their intended purpose of hauling and towing. But their inefficiency is precisely why gas mileage improvements are important in the pickup world, and why...
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To Highlight Fuel Economy, Ford Launches F-150 EcoBoost Challenge
To promote the fuel efficiency of its F-150 EcoBoost pickup, Ford's latest social media contest will pay dividends to both the winner and the residents of the winning city.
Kurt Ernst -
ALTe To Test Extended-Range Electric Retrofit In Ford F-150 Pickup Truck
Electric vehicles of various sorts are just now showing up in dealer showrooms. But that leaves a quarter of a billion gasoline vehicles running around U.S. roads. What to do to clean them up? Various entities have proposed to retrofit existing vehicles with various types of electric powertrains...
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One-Third Of 2011 Ford F-150 Pickups Sold With V-6
MPGs matter, it turns out, even to pickup buyers. Or, perhaps especially to pickup truck buyers. Just four months after Ford added an EcoBoost engine option to its top-selling F-150 pickup truck, the company reports that fully 35 percent of the 2011 model's sales are fitted with either that...
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Greening The Rouge: Ford's More Sustainable Pickup Plant
A green roof is not at its most photogenic in a Michigan winter. In fact, it's hardly green at all--more like gray and brown--though it still insulates the building below just as well. But while some of the green aspects of Ford's showcase Rouge assembly plant have succumbed to the January weather...
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A century ago, Henry Ford was known for insisting that parts be shipped to his factories in wooden crates whose slats were sized so they could be reused to build parts of the Model T body. Now a similar spirit of saving scrap is being used to stamp fender baffles for the new 2011 Ford Explorer out of steel left over after door openings are cut into body-side stampings for the full-size F-150 pickup truck. The pieces that were cut out are trucked from the stamping plant in Woodhaven, Michigan, to a supplier in nearby Monroe, where they're cut down into the baffles, which help dampen road...
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Smaller-More-Efficient Engines II: Ford EcoBoost Effort Expands
We said it on Friday: Smaller, more efficient engines are going to be the main way we increase gas mileage in the next few years (in that case, a four-cylinder 2010 Buick LaCrosse). This morning, Ford has underlined that theme once more by announcing three new applications of their EcoBoost engines...
John Voelcker -
Surprise: You Save Gas, Drive Better If Your Boss Watches
We don't write much about trucks here at GreenCarReports.com, but our friends at PickupTrucks.com follow them obsessively. Now they've provided the data for an obvious but revealing truth: People drive better and more smoothly, saving gas, when they're being watched. They report that truck fleets...
John Voelcker -
Plug-In Pickup To Be Built By Indiana Based EMC
New EMC Flash to be based on The Ford F-150
Jon Vandervelde -
Ford Launches New Ad Campaign Focused on Hybrid Fusion
Last night, Ford Motor Company kicked off their new advertising campaign focused on green technology and hybrid vehicles. Ford choose to launch their campagign during the airing of American Idol on Fox Network. Ford debuted three brand new comercials that are part of their new campaign called...
Eric Loveday
