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Ford promotes Nancy Gioia to accelerate EV strategy

Ford has appointed Nancy Gioia, formerly the company's director of sustainable mobility technology and hybrid vehicle programs, to the new position of director of global electrification in order to accelerate the company's EV strategy. She will be in charge of not only coordinating all programs involving electrification of vehicles in the company – pure battery-powered, plug-in hybrids and hybrids – but also to find new partners, business models and the partnering to build plug-in infrastructure. However, Gioia's main target will ... Read more →

VIDEO: Ford engineers show off the new Focus BEV for the Jay Leno Show Sam Abuelsamid

We already showed you the first images of the new battery electric Focus that Ford has built for the guests of the new Jay Leno show to use in his Green Car Challenge. Now Ford has also posted a ...

Ford announces electric vehicle-to-grid communications system Sam Abuelsamid

At a conference in Dearborn today with its utility and research partners, Ford announced a new intelligent vehicle-to-grid communications system. This communications strategy is a major component ...

Minneapolis and Ford want 66 electric, plug-in hybrid cars locally by 2010 Sebastian Blanco

Hey look, a plug-in vehicle partnership without Nissan-Renault. No, seriously. This time, the location is the greater Minneapolis-St. Paul area, where local governments want to work with Ford to ...

Magna International gets new Michigan HQ for electric vehicles, hybrids Sebastian Blanco

Magna International's contract manufacturing unit, Magna Steyr, used the Geneva Motor Show to unveiled its Mila EV concept (read more here) last month. The parent company's strong work in the ...

Ford CEO Mullaly expects many Fords to be electric in a decade 9 months ago on Autoblog Green

Ford may have been relatively quiet on the electric vehicle front while General Motors got all the attention for its Chevy Volt series hybrid, but the Blue Oval has come roaring back in recent months. It was revealed in its viability plan submitted to Congress back in December that an electric ...

NYT drives electric Ford Focus mule 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

While it took months for GM to let the media drive its Volt mule, Ford has wasted no time in giving Bill Vlasic of the New York Times a chance to try out its own all-electric Ford Focus-based prototype. The company just announced the existence of the vehicle a few days ago. Accompanied by Ford's ...

Ford to electrify Transit Connect van 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

When Ford submitted its business plan to Congress, a new electric van was mentioned that is scheduled to debut in 2010 for commercial fleet use. We expect to hear more about the automaker's EV plans in very short order, but in the meantime, CEO Alan Mulally is now indicating that it will be a ...

All-electric Ford Ranger EV on eBay 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

EBay is one of the better places to shop for electric vehicles these days (recent up tick in scam offers notwithstanding). Aside from EV Finder's classifieds, there aren't many other places you can get an all-electric Ford Ranger, that's for sure. There is currently a Ford Ranger EV up for auction ...

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