Published:”Wednesday, December 12, 2007 DEARBORN, Michigan - Ford Motor Co expects a new generation of more powerful batteries to be on the road in hybrid vehicles in the next three to five years, a senior Ford engineer said on Tuesday. View Large The Ford Edge with HySeries Drive is the world’s first drivable fuel [...]
The parallel hybrid electric vehicle uses common household current (120 volts) for charging, with a full charge of the battery completed within six to eight hours. When driven on surface streets for the first 30 miles following a full charge, the Ford Escape PHEV can achieve up to 120 mpg ‘“ roughly 4.5 times [...]
By Kevin Krolicki DEARBORN, Michigan (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co expects a new generation of more powerful batteries to be on the road in hybrid vehicles in the next three to five years, a senior Ford engineer said on Tuesday. Ford and its major rivals are all working to adapt the lithium-ion battery technology [...]
In a series of brilliant public relations moves in the wake of skyrocketing gas prices, Ford offers a glimpse of things to come in auto hybrid technology. Ford has just delivered the first in a series of 20 vehicles to a Southern California Edison facility for rigorous testing. The well received news event was [...]
The next logical step regarding the Escape Hybrid is to make it a plug-in vehicle, which is exactly what Ford has done. Bypassing the concept stage on the auto show circuit, Ford has built 20 of these plug-in hybrids in collaboration with Southern California Edison (a utilities company), which it delivered earlier this week. [...]
