Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. Ford is the second largest automaker in the U.S. and the fifth-largest in the world based on annual vehicle sales in 2010. Ford is the eighth-ranked overall American-based company in the 2010 Fortune 500 list, based on global revenues in 2009 of $118.3 billion.
Ford is requiring dealerships selling its EVs to meet environmental and expertise guidelines as the Focus Electric appears in more showrooms.
Today the Ford Motor Company announced huge successes in cutting waste at its factories and has pledged to ramp up those efforts in the coming years.
Following Ford’s recent announcement that they will use recycled plastic bottles for seat fabrics in the upcoming Focus Electric, the company’s efforts to increase the use of sustainable materials continues with the news that they will use kenaf plant fiber material for interior door bolsters for the new Escape. Kenaf, blended with polypropylene in a [...]
Readers of TriplePundit don’t need reminding that the waste stream derived from buying bottled water is an environmental hazard. Less than a third of all plastic bottles get recycled in the USA, when they could be put to effective second-life use. Ford Motor Company announced last week that in partnership with REPREVE, they plan to [...]
The level of drama associated with the unveiling of a new model of car is something to behold – especially for someone who’s not particularly into cars. At the crack of dawn this morning, with appropriately dramatic pomp at the North American International Auto show in Detroit, Ford CEO Alan Mulally and his team revealed several [...]
We’ve been following along with Ford’s answer to the Nissan Leaf for some time, and not just because we like butterflies. The all-electric version of the Ford Focus is expected to be the first five-passenger electric vehicle that will exceed “100 MPGe” – a measurement that allows better comparison of electric and gas vehicles. The Focus [...]
Now that we are at the dawn of the electric car era is it too early to wonder what’s next in automobile technology? This article explores what I believe to likely be the next technology to continue the push of zero emissions vehicles.
Ford is introducing a new range of electric, hybrid and plug-in hybrid passenger vehicles for 2012, which the company says will mean a third of their vehicle lines will feature a model with 40 miles-per-gallon, or more, next year. A 100% electric version of the latest generation Ford Focus, will initially go on sale in [...]
This post was originally published on the CSRHub Blog. By Carol Pierson Holding Banks are big proponents of CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility). They give extensively to charities, pay their employees generously and contribute to the environment with LEED certified buildings and sustainable operating practices. They measure and monitor the results of their CSR investment, and [...]
Ford is emerging as an automotive sustainability frontrunner as they step up their strategy, efforts, and product line. One of their new offerings is the redesigned 2013 Ford Escape which has a new look, a new, green engine, and an array of recycled, reused and reduced impact materials. Earlier this year, sustainability expert Andrew Winston lauded Ford’s [...]
Part One of the Green Festival Series By: Jonathan Mariano Do you live in or near Los Angeles or San Francisco? Do you have a great sustainable idea? Do you need a grant to possibly make it happen? Can you articulate that idea in 500 or less words? Well, the Ford Motor Company and Green Festival have [...]
Earlier this year, Ford announced its ongoing commitment to vehicle electrification. The automaker will be sticking to expansions in four-wheel offerings, but, surprisingly they’re also also turning their attention to two-wheelers: E-bikes. While this change represents a radical departure from the company’s core offering, it’s a logical move nonetheless. Vehicle electrification might be the sort [...]
Auto companies with electric vehicle offerings are increasingly taking the opportunity to build links between their vehicles and renewable energy. Perhaps in response to those who say (incorrectly) that EVs do nothing to help mitigate carbon emissions – due to a prevalence of coal-fired electricity generation – manufacturers are forging strategic partnerships with solar companies [...]
As Phil Covington reports above, Ford and SunPower Corp. have teamed up to offer customers a rooftop solar system, called “Drive Green for Life” which aims to provide Ford electric and plug-in hybrid vehicle customers with enough clean, renewable energy to offset the electricity used to charge their vehicle(s). The system should cost approximately $10,000, [...]
Ford Motor Company works with a local Detroit manufacturer to churn old recycled tires and soy into parts that now make their way into 11 of Ford’s vehicles.
In a world where fossil fuels are increasingly expensive and less desirable, it makes sense to unleash the innovation of one’s best engineers on developing new materials – free from fossil constraints. This goes double for a car company looking for not only new materials, but ways to make traditional materials both lighter and stronger. [...]
Reporting from Dearborn, MI, I was pleasantly surprised by Ford’s “safety technology” demonstration – a ride in a kitted out Ford Explorer to demonstrate various ways new cars will avoid collisions. After the demonstration, which turned out to be fascinating, it struck me that public safety is an obvious aspect of sustainability – not to [...]
Among the talking points we heard repeatedly last week at the Forward with Ford trends event where that the soon-to-be-released Ford Focus electric will get better mileage than a Chevy Volt and will charge faster than a Nissan Leaf. That’s exciting news for a brand new car we haven’t yet seen on the road. It [...]
Bear with me on a long winded post. You have to be long winded when you’re digesting a Malcolm Gladwell Speech. I’m here at Ford’s world headquarters in Dearborn, MI, wrapping up the “Forward with Ford” conference, a self described “consumer trends” media event wherein Ford intends to provoke conversation about today’s major societal trends, [...]
Ford Motor Company, the one American car company that did not need a bailout from the government, released its 12th annual sustainability report last week, titled Blueprint for Sustainability: Driving Change. The report emphasizes Ford’s climate change strategy: to do its part to keep carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to less than 450 parts per [...]
A popular theme over the years at 3p has been the slowly greening automobile industry and the quest for more sustainable transportation in general. We’ve touted rising startups like Tesla and the green thinking of industry giants like General Motors and the Chevy Volt. This week, it’ll be Ford’s turn. I’ll be reporting from Detroit [...]
It was just a few years ago that Ford, along with the rest of Detroit’s auto manufacturers, found themselves sidelined for ignoring fuel efficiency. How times have changed. These days, Ford likes to stress that they offer 12 vehicles which achieve best-in-class fuel economy across various market segments, and sell four vehicles that get in [...]
A GreenBiz article asks, “Can a company take on sustainability initiatives — and promote their green credentials — while also lobbying behind the scenes to halt, slow or weaken environmental legislation?” That question is one that the 43 major companies on the board of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) need to answer. NAM, the [...]
Ford Motor Company is feeling pretty good about itself these days. The company just announced its best quarterly profits this century. Profits reached $2.55 billion, up, 460 million, or 22% from a year ago. Rising demand for their new line of fuel-efficient vehicles, along with an improving economy, were seen as the main drivers. “Our [...]
With 2,300 public companies rated, the FTSE’s ESG ratings are gaining respect in the responsible investment realm. Portfolio managers are turning more and more to these types of standards to help determine investment risks. As the transparency surrounding environmental, social, and corporate governance increases, investors are actively seeking companies that have solid ratings or steady [...]
Auto manufacturers breaking into the electric vehicle (EV) market not only have to concern themselves with research and development of the vehicles themselves, but also with ensuring the infrastructure is in place for customers to be able to use them. Selling into markets unprepared for EVs would naturally diminish the chances of manufacturers gaining sales [...]
With sustainability becoming more and more of a concern with consumers, automobile manufacturers are providing solutions to meet that demand. Likewise, there needs to be infrastructure to provide fuel for these new automobiles. However, there is no guarantee that consumers will adopt the automobile choices provided. Nor is there a guarantee that a fueling infrastructure [...]
By Trey Trenchard The term “differentiated green” refers to companies who pursue green strategies to go beyond clearing regulatory and negative PR hurdles. It refers to companies who create green strategies for reasons such as cost savings and creating a larger and more loyal customer base. The most notable country to not sign the Kyoto [...]
Ford calls its sustainability report for the 2009/10 period the “future at work,” and for a relatively short 8-page document, it outlines a remarkably broad and, OK let’s say it, visionary strategy for the future of the company and alternative energy vehicle production. The company says it is “steadfastly focused on creating a strong business [...]
According to this FastCompany article, Ford Motors is not too keen on the notion of designing its future electric vehicles to be compatible with battery-swap infrastructure, such as that developed by Better Place. Sue Cischke, Ford’s vice president for Sustainability, Environment and Safety Engineering, was quoted as saying, “For Ford, it doesn’t seem to be [...]
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