Ford is investing C$1.8 billion to transform Oakville (Ont.) Assembly Complex into a Canadian hub of electric vehicle manufacturing that will include vehicle and battery pack assembly; site transformation key to Ford’s plan to reach a global production run rate of 2 million EVs annually by the end of 2026. The new campus – to […]
Electric vehicles
150,000th Mustang Mach-E
Ford Motor Co. has built its 150,000 Mustang Mach-E and says it is now offering the vehicle in 37 countries with plans to add more markets in 2023. Ford is the number 2 seller of electric vehicles in the US, they say, because of the strong demand for the Mach-E. Ford is scaling up production […]
Electric Vehicles in a Nut Shell
Conventional Hybrids (CH) vehicles like the Ford Fusion Hybrid SE, combine both a gasoline engine with an electric motor. While these vehicles have an electric motor and battery, they can’t be plugged in and recharged. Instead their batteries are charged from capturing energy when braking, using regenerative braking that converts kinetic energy into electricity. This energy […]
What’s Our Ratio?
The conversion from combustable engines to electric (battery) vehicles isn’t as clean as it appears. University of Manitoba professor and author, Vaclav Smil tackles the efficiency of this conversion in his latest book, Energy and Civilization: A History. Smil uses a core principal called energy returned or energy invested, EroEi, that measures how efficient you […]