Ford Motor Company has teamed up with “The Jay Leno Show” in the United States to provide an all-new battery electric version of the Ford Focus ST five-door for celebrities to drive in the programme’s regular “Green Car Challenge” segment. Ford has especially made the car for the programme, using an Electric Orange Ford Focus [...]

The BEV stands for Battery Electric Vehicle.  This term applies to the Tesla vehicles, Nissan’s Leaf, a bunch of others, and now the Ford Focus.  I guess they wanted to put the battery up front to differentiate the Focus from the rest of the electric vehicles that could possibly get their power from somewhere other [...]

Seattle knows Alan Mulally as the father of the Boeing 777. On Monday, he was back in town to show off his newest baby — one with four wheels instead of two wings. You could test drive this one in the parking lot. Now chief executive of the Ford Motor Company, Mulally is out promoting [...]

Ford Motor Company announced today that it has developed an intelligent vehicle-to-grid communications and control system for its plug-in hybrid electric vehicles that ‘talks’ directly with the nation’s electric grid. This new technology – which builds on Ford’s advancements such as SYNC®, SmartGauge™ with EcoGuide and Ford Work Solutions™ – allows the vehicle operator to [...]

Ford is going to roll out some new electric vehicles next year.  And when they do they want some infrastructure in place to support the EVs.  So the automaker has been working with utilities and seeking government aid to make sure that there are enough charging stations out there. The money will come out of [...]

With Congress set to consider a $25-billion lifeline to the domestic auto industry, the heads of General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co., Chrysler LLC and the United Auto Workers will be called to Capitol Hill next week to explain why the money is needed and how it will be used to keep the industry alive. [...]

A few days ago the leaders of the three Detroit automakers sat down with Democratic leaders to discuss their dire situation.  It seems that they’ve done what they intended to do.  The leaders sent a letter to the treasury asking it to use part of the 700 billion bailout for financial institutions to help out [...]