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In the performance industry, a “bolt-on” modification is a cheap, easy way to add horsepower with just a little bit of work. A Massachusetts-based company has developed a bolt-on hybrid conversion aimed at fleet vehicles. One of the most popular fleet vehicles in America is the Ford Crown Victoria and its cousin, the Lincoln Town [...]
Finally, someone has found a productive end for human urine. Usually when we see the word “pee” and the words “fuel” or “car” in the same sentence something decidedly unproductive has happened, i.e. “I peed in his fuel tank” or “I peed on his car.” Rest easy though, because scientists at Ohio University are doing [...]
When it comes to pedestrian safety versus eliminating noise pollution, the Brits have made their decision pretty clear: the noise has got to go. They feel that the Backup Pedestrian Warning Signal that occurs when the Nissan Leaf is in reverse must be deactivated or altered so that it may be turned off, because it’s [...]
Believe it or not, Ford makes some pretty awesome cars outside of America, including some 60 mpg diesels. Don’t expect those to come to America though, as a Ford executive says diesels don’t make sense for America. Boo. Derrick Kuzak, Ford’s VP of global product development, told a group of European auto journalists and Automotive [...]
This is the Pininfarina B0 electric city car … and 4000 (four-thousand) of these slick little Smart-slayers will be hitting the roads of Paris as early as 2013. 4000 is quite a number (especially in the green car universe), but this isn’t some commonplace vaporware project – although Pininfarina is most famous for designing some [...]
Last week, Ford announced that it would be resurrecting the discontinued 6.8L V10 gasoline engine for service in the 2012 F-650 commercial truck … a move which, to me, seems baffling. Keep in mind, we’re not talking about consumer vehicles here. Instead, we’re talking about medium-duty trucks and chassis cabs (class 4-7) in general, which [...]
No it’s not a rapper or the next new dance craze. It’s only supposedly the CHEAPEST electric vehicle on the market. Made public at the Paris Auto Show, this two-seater may not look all blinged out, but priced at only $9,700 – who cares! That’s about the price of many electric motorcycles coming to market, [...]
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Ford Wants You to Know: They’re Not Back-tracking on EVs
A few days ago, I posted an article about some comments Bill Ford made at the ECO:nomics conference in California. Comments which, by some accounts, seemed to imply that Ford was pessimistic about the future of electric cars in the US. A few days later, I received an email from Ford Corporate Communications, telling me [...]