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Another Year With Emphasis on Green Technology

According to a top engineer at Ford, the company will be moving funds from hydrogen fuel cell research to focus on hybrid and electric vehicles.  The move comes on the heels of the auto industry's rapid involvement into hybrid-electric and full-electric and Ford has no plans of being left behind...

Ford and Smith Electric Vehicle announced plans to partner together to build battery electric vehicles at a new site in Kansas City.  Smith EV purchased a portion of an unused overhaul base at Kansas City International Airport to use as its factory for converting vehicles to BEVs and plans to...

By giving cars to 100 Millennial drivers who've promised to share their impressions via social media, Ford's clever marketing staff gets huge word-of-mouth

The new stimulus package that was recently signed in to law allows car buyers to take advantage of tax breaks and credits on hybrid vehicles. The current stimulus package allows would be cars buyers to deduct state and local sales tax paid on any vehicle that was purchased new after February...

Years ago, Magna International Inc. decided to diversify its company by expanding into electric only vehicles.  They sourced companies that were versed in electric drivetrains, and decided on the Ford Focus as the vehicle that would represent their achievements in a battery electric vehicle. Magna...

Yesterday, March 11th, AT&T announced plans to purchase a large amount of hybrid vehicles in the near future.  According to AT&T, they will spend up to $565 million during the next decade to purchase more than 15,000 hybrid and natural gas powered vehicles.  According to AT&T, Ford...

The European Ford Mondeo Tri-Fuel can run interchangeably on gasoline, E85 ethanol, or liquified petroleum gas (LPG)

Despite all the green love Toyota gets, Ford builds and sells hybrids too. In fact, they've now built enough of them that tax breaks for buying a Ford hybrid will start to wind down at the end of March. The full tax credit only applies to sales of the first 60,000 hybrids from each carmaker...

Ford Motor Company celebrated the production of their 100,000th hybrid at their Kansas City Assembly Plant today. The company, which plans to increase hybrid car production this year with the incoming Ford Fusion and Mercury Milan models, used the day as an opportunity to plug their gas-electric...

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...

Ford's new V6 EcoBoost engine lowers fuel economy while raising power; it'll appear first in the 2010 Taurus SHO

To get its first EV to market quicker, Ford has partnered with Smith Electric Vehicles

Will be built on Transit Connect Platform and have 100 mile range

Ford Motor company recently revealed a plan to build a c-class electric sedan for production in 2012. AllCarsElectric.com also test drove a mule prototype of that vehicle. Today, Ford announced that it had chosen the lithium-ion battery supplier. Johnson Controls-Saft of France has signed a...

SCCA RallyCross tests the limits of the cheap commuter car

Economic downturns and small hatchbacks seem to go hand-in-hand.

Ford made an especially strong jump on the EV scene at the 2009 Detroit Auto Show announcing that they will begin mass production of a battery-electric vehicle, yet unnamed, in 2011. I was invited by Ford to actually test drive a prototype. At this point the vehicle is based on the Ford Focus body...

Back in November, we reported on the 2010 Fusion hybrid unveiling at the L.A. Auto Show. Yesterday, we drove it at the EcoXperience test track at the NAIAS. I had driven hybrids before, so I wasn't completely shocked by the Fusion's ultra-quiet idling and low-speed driving. After all, we were only...

Ford decided to get into the electric car game six months ago, being pushed into it by the wave of enthusiasm from the Chevy Volt and other concepts. They called the plan Project M. On Sunday the vehicle will be demonstrated in the body of a Ford Focus compact car. Powered by lithium-ion batteries...