Photo Source: Ford In a remarkable start to the year, Ford Motor Company has announced robust sales figures for the first quarter of 2024, buoyed by a surge in demand for hybrid and electric vehicles (EVs) across its diverse product portfolio. The company’s strategic focus on offering customers a vast lineup of choices spanning electric,…
Photo Source: Ford During an earnings call in the fourth quarter of February 2023, Ford CEO Jim Farley discussed the company’s Gen-2 electric vehicle platform. To everyone’s astonishment, Farley revealed that the project was not developed by the Ford Model e electric vehicle division. Instead, it was outsourced to a talented skunk works team that…
Photo Source: Ford What does a genuine effort toward sustainable automotive manufacturing look like? As decarbonization efforts were extended, automotive production realized that genuine sustainability efforts demand a holistic approach. For automotive manufacturers, this means that the carbon footprint caused by finished vehicles is only a small fraction of the equation. The energy output formed…
Photo Source: Ford Ford was one of the initial brands to state it would be switching the charging ports on its vehicles from today’s (2024) Combined Charging System (CCS) outlets to the so-called North American Charging Standard (NACS) outlets. As such, the automaker announced on February 29, 2024, that vehicles from its model range, such…
Photo Source: Ford Cloaked in secrecy, Ford returns to Colorado Springs, Colorado, in June 2024, to run a specialized version of its F-150 Lightning electric vehicle in the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. It ran the “Race to the Clouds” last year (2023) in its SuperVan. Despite being just 12.5 miles, it is a tremendously…
Photo Source: Ford Since its introduction in the 2021 model year, the Ford Mustang Mach-E has drawn the attention of a wide spectrum of consumers. With no tailpipe emissions, engaging driving performance, and over-the-air software updates on a massive center touchscreen, the Mach-E drives and looks like a car of the future. Nonetheless, electric vehicle…
Photo Source: Ford The 2024 Ford Mustang Mach-E and the 2024 Ford F-150 Lightning deliver various new features and capabilities for drivers and enthusiasts alike to discover. Among those are clever Easter eggs that pay tribute to the effort involved in designing the vehicles. To that end, adults often look for ways to keep children…
Photo Source: Ford While Ford continues to support vehicle electrification with upcoming support for the NACS charging standard and a new partnership with Resideo to help electric vehicle buyers lower energy bills, Ford’s three-row midsize family SUV, the 2025 Explorer, is only available with internal combustion engines. Ford Motor Company recently announced the 2025 Explorer…
Photo Source: Ford It is a little-known fact that Sydney Sweeney spends her spare time repairing vintage cars, an activity she documents on her TikTok account, Syd’s Garage. In Sweeney’s personal hierarchy of triumphs, starring roles in critically acclaimed television shows such as Euphoria and The White Lotus are sprinkles on the proverbial sundae of…
Photo Source: Ford In May 2023, when Ford confirmed that its future electric vehicles would adopt the NACS (North American Charging Standard), the company also revealed that gaining access to Tesla’s Supercharger network by spring 2024 formed part of this deal. Seemingly overnight, nearly all automakers with an electric vehicle on sale in the United…
