US car industry bailout: Ford pledges to go electric

Ford submitted its latest begging letter - sorry, business planning assumption - to the US Congress this week, outlining how it is a viable long-term business that will return to profitability and how the US car manufacturing market is worthy of being propped up in the short term with a government bail out. As part of…

ByThe Global ViewDecember 3, 20080Comments

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Sustaining the Auto Industry: The Tough Questions

Anyone reading the newspapers over the last few days can't fail to have seen the news about the dire straits the US car manufacturing industry is in as credit dries up and people stop buying new cars - especially the kind of gas guzzlers Chrysler, Ford and GM have been churning out in recent years.…

ByThe Global ViewNovember 19, 20080Comments

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Ford: Hydrogen cars are ‘at least 20 years away’

It will be at least two decades before hydrogen-powered cars hit the mainstream because of the cost and difficulty of fuelling them. That's according to Ford's leading engineer on hydrogen cars in this Bloomberg interview. In his rather gloomy assessment of the state of the market for hydrogen-powered cars Ford's Greg Frenette told Bloomberg: "I have not seen…

ByThe Global ViewOctober 17, 20080Comments

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Size matters for Ford

Has the American car maket finally realised that great things can come in small packages? A release that came into Greenbang's inbox this morning suggests that they might have - well, Ford might have at least. The company has unveiled a new Fiesta, which will be built in Germany and ready for sale in 2010. According to…

ByThe Global ViewAugust 15, 20080Comments

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DoE spends $30m for 40 mile hybrids

Greenbang wonders how effective green car marketing really is. Every time someone says hybrid, she doesn't think of the clean tech, she thinks of that weird mouse that had a human ear attached to its back in the name of science. She thinks about that mouse a lot. Like, where is he now? Did the…

ByThe Global ViewJune 16, 20080Comments

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US car industry bailout: Ford pledges to go electric

Sustaining the Auto Industry: The Tough Questions

Ford: Hydrogen cars are ‘at least 20 years away’

Size matters for Ford

DoE spends $30m for 40 mile hybrids

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