Ford Converting Factory For New Electric Crossover During European Summer Vacation

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2022 05:46:20 +0000

In Europe, people take real summer vacations. Europeans get a lot of time off. As some Europeans I knew were fond of saying, they work to live, they don’t live to work. European factory workers at the Cologne Ford factory in Germany are enjoying a nice lengthy summer vacation (aka holiday), but work is actually […]

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Sunrun Installs 700,000 Solar Roofs — How About 700,000 More For Ford F-150 Lightnings?

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 00:13:30 +0000

Sunrun is the USA’s #1 rooftop solar power installer in terms of how much solar power capacity it installs quarter after quarter. It just hit a massive milestone, installing its 700,000th rooftop solar power system. (Well, it’s a little unclear if it was the 700,000th rooftop solar power system, as Sunrun tweeted that it was […]

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Electric Ford Ranger Lightning & Thunder Pickups Are Coming — Could South Africa Finally Get A Locally Assembled EV?

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 23:43:15 +0000

ford f-150 lightning frequently asked questions FAQThe automotive sector is a critical pillar of South Africa’s economy. The National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa (NAAMSA) says that Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) building cars and bakkies (pickups) employ more than 112,500 people in South Africa. These jobs are spread across the various parts of the ecosystem from component manufacturing right […]

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New Electric Pickup Truck Models Coming From Geely & Ford

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 18:50:16 +0000

electric pickup truckThe pickup truck has become a status symbol, thanks to American marketing ingenuity. What started as a bare bones reincarnation of the horse-drawn buckboard has become a sophisticated transportation device swaddled in leather and swimming in a sea of creature comforts that rival the accoutrements usually found in luxury cars and SUVs. With the EV […]

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Ford’s June Sales Numbers Impress Again

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2022 19:35:13 +0000

Normally, we don’t cover a manufacturer’s sales numbers every single month. Why? Because they’re usually just not that interesting. Tesla sold EVs. Other people sold some EVs. Lots of EVs. Over the course of a year, it may impress us more, but monthly numbers just aren’t that exciting in most cases. But, this is like […]

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Ford Factory In Craiova Going Electric

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2022 16:08:42 +0000

Ford has gotten much more serious about going electric in the past few years, and that is more evident in Europe this week as Ford Otosan takes over the Craiova Manufacturing Plant and aims to invest half a billion dollars into it to bring it into the bright clean electric future. Ford Otosan will be […]

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UK Plugin EV Share At 22%, Tesla Model Y Overall Runner Up

Credit to Author: Dr. Maximilian Holland| Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2022 20:42:13 +0000

June saw plugin electric vehicles take 21.6% market share in the UK, up from 17.2% YoY. This despite a temporary availability shortfall, stemming from pauses at Tesla Shanghai. Overall auto volumes were at 140,958 units, the weakest June since 1996. The Tesla Model Y was the best selling plugin in June, and the 2nd best […]

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