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U.S. DOE pays for half of Ford's $20m plug-in Escape hybrid program

Ford - along with utilities Southern California Edison, the Electric Power Research Institute, DTE and battery-maker Johnson Controls/Saft - has been working on its plug-in hybrid Escape program for a long while. Yesterday, Ford announced the good news that the federal government has decided to grant the project $10 million through the U.S. Department of Energy. The grant goes to Ford and covers half the cost of the $20 million project. Ford plans to build 20 PHEV Escapes over two years, and delivered the first such vehicle to SCE last ... Read more →

Ford picks Johnson Controls-Saft to supply batteries for PHEV Escapes Sebastian Blanco

When Ford handed over the keys to a plug-in Escape hybrid to Southern California Edison last December, one of many secrets the companies kept to themselves was which battery maker was responsible for ...

EVS23: Ford's plug-in Escape hybrid handover videos Sebastian Blanco

Back at EVS23, Ford handed over the keys for a plug-in hybrid Escape to Southern California Edison. I've finally had time to edit together the video I shot that day, so watch it already. :) In ...

EVS23: Ford hands over the plug-in Escape hybrid to SCE Sebastian Blanco

Representatives from Ford and Southern California Edison were obviously quite excited about a big event on Monday at EVS23, where Ford's Sue Cischke (second from left), senior vice president, ...

Will the Blue Oval's new plug-in hybrids be named the Ford Extend? Sebastian Blanco

Sometimes, when our helpful readers send in a note to the AutoblogGreen tip line, the message gets lost in the shuffle. You might be able to relate to having an overstuffed email inbox, and know that ...

Ford is not working on a plug-in Escort for 2010 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/business_finance/Rumor_squashed_Ford_is_not_readying_plug_in_hybrid_Escorts_for_2010'; We reported yesterday on a story that turned up about Ford working on a new dedicated plug-in hybrid referred to as a new Escort. We decided to check with Ford to see if there was ...

Has Ford seen the light? Plug-in hybrid Escort coming in 2010? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

You'd think a story like this would be all over the place, but as of right now, only Next Energy News is onto the announcement of a 100 mpge (mpg equivalent) plug-in Ford Escort hybrid due in 2010. According to NEN, the new Escort PHEV will use nanotech lithium-ion batteries from A123 Systems (NEN ...


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