After the Volkswagen Group has detailed its strategy hybrid electric and 100%, the manufacturer Ford posts its ambitions: it plans to introduce on the European market 5 models and 100% electric hybrids by 2013. (more...)
This Sunday, the newspaper La Nation reproduced in Economics and Business section an interview with the president of Ford Argentina, Enrique Ale many. At the same owner of the car responds to different questions submitted by readers among these especially the one sent by the user topaz50 in asking why the delay in introducing hybrid cars in the Ford line in Argentina?
"No doubt Argentina gradually receive new technologies that reduce pollution and improve fuel consumption. At the moment we have no plans to incorporate hybrid models in Argentina," Ale many said. "It is not easy to bring this technology to vehicles Argentina, mainly an issue of cost, "he said. (more...)
In the United States, the American manufacturer Ford has indicated that some of its vehicles hybrids were experiencing brake problems: these are the Fusion Hybrid and Milan Hybrid 2010.
Clients of these hybrids have informed Ford failed: it will fix this situation by improving the management information system of braking. Read the rest of this entry »
Ford, unlike GM and Chrysler, has no plans to introduce its ecological range of their SUVs on the market, though that entails lower sales. And this is not for nothing, since the idea of Ford is to present later to a hybrid variant (true) of their large SUV’s F-150.
Within a few months when there will be the SEMA Show in Las Vegas, the oval submit to a hybrid version of its F-150, where it is estimated that its mechanism and operation will be similar to not having its competition (GM and Chrysler), but this used a lot like the one with Volvo plug-in concepts that I present a few months ago (plug-in). This new project involves PML Flightlink, a manufacturer of engines. Read the rest of this entry »
The manufacturer Ford sells its new Focus ECOnetic. The key word displayed: sobriety!
The Ford Focus 1.6 TDCI 110 DPF Econetic ASS (Auto-Start-Stop) emits 99 g C02/km and consumes Average 3.8 l/100 km: it has the function Stop & Start. She is entitled to an environmental bonus of 1 000 to December 31, 2009.
Version 1.6 TDCI 110 DPF Econetic without Stop & Start rejects 104 g / km CO2 and consumes an average of 5 l/100 km. Read the rest of this entry »
