Fasten your seat belts because yesterday Ford Motor Company officially rolled out its Fusion hybrid automated research vehicle featuring a rooftop LiDAR system that sees and maps the world in real time 3-D, including people and other bodies in motion. Remember that cool scene in Predator when you finally got … [continued]
Electric cars, in general, were the winners in October 2013. However, within that overall story, I think the most notable stories of the month involved Ford & Toyota — not exactly the companies you think of when you think about electric car leaders, right? No, neither company unleashed an electric … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. Breaking away from the fold, Ford’s US hybrid and electric car sales actually surged in September 2013 (compared to September 2012) despite Labor Day “falling in August” on the auto industry sales calendar (for who knows what reason). Counter to the hit Toyota, GM, and Honda … [continued]
Ford has been keeping track of aggregate data on its plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) models, and early results show that new PHEV owners are pretty quick on the ball. Within about 30 days of buying a new PHEV, Ford owners have demonstrated a marked ability to adjust their driving … [continued]
This article was first published on EV Obsession. Ford has not historically been a leader in hybrid or electric vehicle technology. Toyota and Honda very clearly led the introduction of mass-market hybrid electric vehicles. More recently, Nissan and GM have led the burgeoning 100% electric and plug-in electric vehicle markets. … [continued]
An executive from Ford has said that its hybrid electric cars are flying off the shelves out in California. He also added that the US hybrid market is steadily growing as a whole, but gradually. Hybrid cars have been around for many years. Hybrid production goes even as far back … [continued]
Once buried and left for dead, the electric vehicle (EV) has been gaining ground at a slow, yet steady pace in the automotive market. With a growing middle class globally, and climate change concerns is helping to revitalize EVs in recent years. Now Ford’s new Chief Operating officer suggests EVs could … [continued]
There they go again. Ford, the same car manufacturer that touched off a revolution in car ownership with the Model T more than 100 years ago, has just announced a new collaboration called MyEnergi Lifestyle®, which promises a whole new ownership concept based on electric vehicle technology. In essence, … [continued]
Ford’s EV+ system is either super awesome or super creepy — it consists of proprietary predictive software that watches where you go, and when in a familiar area and traveling a familiar route, it switches to battery only power to save gas. […]
As electric and plug-in vehicles increase in demand due to customers wanting cleaner vehicles (for environmental concerns such as climate change, as well as pure economic reasons), it’s obvious these vehicles will increase fuel efficiency records. The Ford C-Max Energi is one such vehicle doing so today. Ford recently announced … [continued]
