BEIJING, April 23, 2010 – With its largest, most interactive display ever, Ford is highlighting an impressive array of new products and technologies at the 2010 Beijing Auto Show while the company gears itself to capitalize on growth in China and across the Asia Pacific and Africa region. Ford is previewing the global next-generation [...] [...]
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Ford, the industry leader in commercial and government fleet sales, will offer 100 percent of its fleet vehicles this year with fuel-efficient powertrains and other sustainable technologies – including battery electric, hybrid, natural gas, propane, E-85, biodiesel (B20) and EcoBoost – making the Blue Oval the industry’s greenest full-line fleet provider. [...] The 2011 Hyundai Sonata, due in December, is the company’s first hybrid—but far from the last. Hyundai will add the mildest form of hybrid technology, stop-start, to a range of its models. The technology is called stop-start, idle-stop or micro-hybrid. Bottom line: It’s a cost-effective way to get a 10 percent efficiency improvement. In recent [...] [...] Only for the Delta platform Alan Taub, GM’s head of global research and development, recently told AutoCar that the Voltec powertrain powering the Chevy Volt is only viable for Volt-sized vehicles. According to Taub, GM’s range extended electric vehicle technology is too big for cars smaller than the Volt, and adding batteries for larger vehicles would [...] [...] |
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