Can a car be fuel efficient and fun?

October 21st, 2009 Posted by Harry Fuller @ 4:52 pmCategories:Blogroll, air pollution, cars traffic, conservation, energy, engineering, green tech, renewable energy, researchTags:Car, Ford Motor Co., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Harry FullerFord wants it both ways: using less fuel, have fun driving. To that end they are working with some engineers at the University of Michigan to test drive and then virtually test drive hyrbids and electric cars to find what works bo

Ford to defeat Honda and take the second place in U.S. hybrid sales

Automotive News Data Center reveals that Toyota Motor Corp. continues to take the lead when it comes to US hybrid sales. And it doesn’t appear that Ford Motor Co. or Honda Motor Co. would be overtaking it anytime soon considering that it leads by an outstanding margin; it sells more than all of its rivals combined.Toyota sold a total of 144,351 during the first three quarters of 2009. With Prius sales having recorded a drop of 20%, Toyota’s total U.S. hybrid sales fell 28%. Honda’s popular Insig

Review: 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid, look here for impressive fuel-effciency numbers

FoMoCo’s CEO Alan Mulally is calling consumers and thanking them for purchasing it over the Toyota Prius; it gets better fuel-economy than the Toyota Camry Hybrid; it is the most fuel-efficient mid-size hybrid sedan in America; It is the 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid, a fuel-efficient mid-size sedan that Detroit can claim with pride. The ‘10 Fusion Hybrid gets an EPA estimated 41 mpg in-town, has a driving range of 700 miles on a single tank of gas, and goes as fast as 47 mph in electric mode; but t

Electric Ford Focus to make London debut

Residents of the London Borough of Hillingdon will be among the luckiest motorists in the UK as they will be the first in Britain to experience Ford’s zero-emission technology. Volunteer drivers in the borough will trial battery electric vehicle (BEV) prototypes of the Ford Focus – vehicles that have been designed specifically for the UK Government’s ‘Ultra-low Carbon Vehicles’ demonstration next year. As many as 20 households will run the cars for a three-month period and will have access t

Ford hybrid vehicles becoming more popular

Ford’s hybrids recorded a 73% sales increase in the US in 2009 compared to the previous year. We’re guessing that a primary factor to this result is that in 2008, the Ford hybrid offering was much poorer.A very important thing to be taken from these figures is the fact that more than 60% of the buyers of Ford’s hybrids are new to the brand. Consider too that other hybrid makers have to contend with a 14% drop. In a release, David Finnegan, Ford hybrid marketing manager, said that more than 50% o

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