Ford will begin testing self-driving cars in some US cities in 2018, the company’s CEO revealed on an earnings call with analysts and reporters on Thursday, according to recent reports.
https://twitter.com/Ford/status/739887413690925061 If some goodhearted, genuinely trying people came up with the new Ford Focus Electric ad featuring Captain Planet, I’m sorry to criticize it, but it is a really lame attempt to sell an electric car. First of all, let’s get this out of the way: People know electric cars are … [continued]
We just published a story about statement from Kevin Layden, director of electrification programs and engineering for Ford, that seemed to indicate Ford had no real long-range electric car plans. “I think right now with the launch of the Focus Electric at 100 miles, it is going to satisfy a big chunk … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. In the latest episode of our Cleantech Talk podcast (embedded below), Kyle Field, Matthew Klippenstein, and I talk about early Tesla Model S drive unit problems and the implications for future models and Tesla as a whole; Ford’s big $4.5 billion electric vehicle push, and … [continued]
Ford recently blasted out news of a $4.5 billion dollar investment in “electrified vehicle solutions,” which aims to electrify existing models, adding 13 new plug-in vehicles to the Ford stable by the end of the decade. Looking at the news in light of its current offerings, and it’s likely that the core of this effort is … [continued]
Also published on EV Obsession, Planetsave, and CleanTechnica. Chris DeMorro and I jumped into our third Cleantech Talk podcast just a couple of hours ago. I think we really hit our stride with this one. It was a lot of fun, and felt like a really long tennis or ping … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. A new report by by Zentrums für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg (ZSW), which Green Car Congress somehow ran across, shows that the number of plug-in cars on the roads more than doubled from the end of 2012 to the end of 2013. That followed doubling of the number … [continued]
In case you’re not familiar with it, #SolarChat is a pretty huge Twitter event. #SolarChat events regularly rank at the top of National Twitter Trends the day that they take place. The last #SolarChat, which was about American corporate solar champions and the business case for solar, even trended higher … [continued]
Ford has just announced the Ford C-Max Solar Energi Concept. The day after Christmas, I had the chance to talk with Mike Tinskey, Ford’s global director of vehicle electrification and vehicle infrastructure, about the concept car and other electric vehicle matters. Below are a number of details about the Ford C-Max Solar Energi … [continued]
Nick Chambers of Gas2 has posted a detailed review over there of the 2013 Ford C-Max Energi (plugin-hybrid electric vehicle) he recently bought. Read the full review on Gas2, or check out the snippets I’ve pulled out of it and quoted, below. In a nutshell, Nick described the C-Max Energi as … [continued]
