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- Going the Distance: Ford Delivers First PHEV to Canada’s Largest Electricity Producer
- Shell Announces CE10 Cellulosic Ethanol Available NOW at Ottawa Station
- Classic Metal, Post-Modern Motor: Meet The Electric Mustang
| Going the Distance: Ford Delivers First PHEV to Canada’s Largest Electricity Producer Posted: 10 Jun 2009 03:18 PM PDT
Is 120 miles-per-gallon too much to ask from an American car company? Ford doesn’t think so. With the addition of the Ford Escape Plug-In Hybrid (PHEV) to its development line, Ford Motor Company is showing that it can dance with the best of them. The Ford Escape Plug-In Hybrid uses high voltage lithium-ion batteries, which can be charged using common household currents (120v). Fully charging the battery takes six to eight hours. For the first 30 miles following a full charge, the Ford Escape PHEV can achieve up to 120 mpg when driven on surface streets. The Escape is not range-limited by the amount of charge available in the battery, because once the battery has been depleted the vehicle continues to operate as a fuel efficient, standard Ford Escape Hybrid. The transition is automatic and unnoticeable. It was the Ford Escape PHEV that was delivered to Hydro-Québec, Canada’s largest electricity generator on June 9th as Ford Motor Company and Hydro-Québec announced that Hydro-Québec has joined a North America-wide demonstration and research program on plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). |
| Shell Announces CE10 Cellulosic Ethanol Available NOW at Ottawa Station Posted: 10 Jun 2009 10:52 AM PDT
Today at Noon, a Shell service station in Ottawa, Ontario will quietly begin selling cellulosic ethanol blended into regular gasoline. The biofuel is made locally from wheat straw, and as far as we know is the first time cellulosic ethanol has been made publicly available. The new fuel will only be available for one month, starting on June 10th, but it’s a major step forward for the production of advanced biofuels. All gasoline purchased at the Ottawa station will be a blend of 10% cellulosic ethanol and 90% gasoline (CE10). |
| Classic Metal, Post-Modern Motor: Meet The Electric Mustang Posted: 10 Jun 2009 08:17 AM PDT
The first car I fell in love with was a ‘69 Mustang I saw at a car show almost too long ago to remember. It was red, it was clean, and it made the most delicious, delirious, devious sound when the owner cranked the 289 motor over. As much as I wanted to own a Mustang after that, I live in an area that is saturated with the classic pony car, so I went with its more obscure cousin, the Mercury Cougar. But with gas prices on the rise once again, not everybody can afford (or wants) to feed a gas guzzling V8 just to cruise down their local strip and meet up with their buddies. So then, is it heresy to take an American symbol of power and excess, remove the horsepower heart, and replace it with an electric motor? I don’t think so, and neither do the guys and gals at Duke’s Garage, who took a ‘65 droptop ’stang and put not one, but two electric motors in this ultra-classic. |
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