Right Lane Cruiser
10-01-2007, 07:48 PM
Don’t count Ford out of the PHEV market just yet. (http://www.ford.com/about-ford/news-announcements/featured-stories/featured-stories-detail/ford-hybrid-plugins)
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/fe_hybrid_plugin.jpgRobert Musial - Ford Motor Company - Sept. 27, 2007
The 2008 FEH’s capabilities are being expanded upon with Ford’s own PHEV research and prototypes. And none to soon either!
DEARBORN -- Members of Ford Motor Company's plug-in hybrid vehicle research team and their counterparts at Southern California Edison are continuing the basic engineering on a joint project announced in July to make hybrid vehicles commercially viable.
As they kick off the next phase of the project, the team was joined today at the utility company's Rosemead, Calif., facilities, by members of Ford's Sustainable Mobility team.
For the past week, engineers have been using an Escape Hybrid plug-in prototype, as well as a 2008 production Escape Hybrid, for comparison testing. Teams from the two companies ran the vehicles through a battery of tests to unify their methods and standards.
Both companies will then begin the longer-term engineering and technical work needed to determine the technology development and the usage patterns of customers, as well as explore possibilities for a sustainable business case that would help commercialize plug-in hybrids.
"We're looking for a solution that will be broader than just the technology. We understand the technical challenges to plug-ins, but we also need to understand how plug-ins really fit into the electric grid, and how we develop a business model that could actually make this technology accessible and affordable down the road," Nancy Gioia, Ford's director of Sustainable Mobility Technology, said Wednesday ... http://www.ford.com/about-ford/news-announcements/featured-stories/featured-stories-detail/ford-hybrid-plugins
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/fe_hybrid_plugin.jpgRobert Musial - Ford Motor Company - Sept. 27, 2007
The 2008 FEH’s capabilities are being expanded upon with Ford’s own PHEV research and prototypes. And none to soon either!
DEARBORN -- Members of Ford Motor Company's plug-in hybrid vehicle research team and their counterparts at Southern California Edison are continuing the basic engineering on a joint project announced in July to make hybrid vehicles commercially viable.
As they kick off the next phase of the project, the team was joined today at the utility company's Rosemead, Calif., facilities, by members of Ford's Sustainable Mobility team.
For the past week, engineers have been using an Escape Hybrid plug-in prototype, as well as a 2008 production Escape Hybrid, for comparison testing. Teams from the two companies ran the vehicles through a battery of tests to unify their methods and standards.
Both companies will then begin the longer-term engineering and technical work needed to determine the technology development and the usage patterns of customers, as well as explore possibilities for a sustainable business case that would help commercialize plug-in hybrids.
"We're looking for a solution that will be broader than just the technology. We understand the technical challenges to plug-ins, but we also need to understand how plug-ins really fit into the electric grid, and how we develop a business model that could actually make this technology accessible and affordable down the road," Nancy Gioia, Ford's director of Sustainable Mobility Technology, said Wednesday ... http://www.ford.com/about-ford/news-announcements/featured-stories/featured-stories-detail/ford-hybrid-plugins