Ford Executive Chairman Bill Ford has been changing their culture for years to embrace fuel-efficiency and now electric vehicles. Ford is working to improve mileage across the model lineup while introducing its first all electric and plug-in hybrid as well as two more gasoline-electric hybrids.
Trucking firms with thousands of trucks and millions of miles driven rated US EPA 2007 emission standard diesel engines as good as or better than the previous generation. This is despite the added diesel particulate filters, ultra-low-sulfur-diesel fuel, and low-ash engine CJ-4 oil.
Chrysler cost cutting has returned it to break-even financially, but it may not be enough in the long-term. Chrysler continues to lose market share and lacks the new products necessary to reclaim it.
Mobileye supplies components of driver assistance safety technologies available in Volvo, GM and BMW models. Its C2-170 system will be available for almost $1,000 from InstallerNet handling lane departure and tailgating warnings.
Ford is installing its new MyFord/MyLincoln Touch in select models starting with the 2011 Edge this summer and expanding to Focus and MKS and other 2011 Lincolns.