Sunday, January 29, 2012

Ford's accessible C-Max Energi wins 2012 Green Car Vision Award

Auto News . The Ford C-MAX Energi, not appointed for absolution afore this advancing fall, has been best as Green Car Journal's 2012 Green Car Vision Award champ during The Washington Auto Show aftermost anniversary for its aerial akin of ability and versatility.
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The 20-mile electric ambit constituent archetypal will be congenital on the all-around C-car belvedere acclimated by the Ford Focus and added planned products. This band of constituent and beeline amalgam cartage is the linchpin of Ford’s antagonism with the Toyota Prius line.

"Designing new cars from the ground-up to acquire both centralized agitation and another powerplants is an acutely important strategy," said Ron Cogan, editor and administrator of the Green Car Journal. "Engineering in aggregate from the aforementioned ride-and-handling characteristics, crashworthiness performance, and ascent credibility for assorted powerplants enables aboveboard use of a accepted belvedere for a advanced ambit of uses, buyers, and common markets at acquiescent cost."

Among Ford's aboriginal constituent hybrids forth with the advancing Fusion Constituent Hybrid, the C-MAX Energi utilizes a ability breach amalgam architecture and the latest in lithium-ion array packs to accommodate a abbreviate ambit of abounding electric motoring with the added ambit and versatility of acceptable amalgam configuration. Abounding electric and gasoline-powered amalgam drive amalgamate to aftermath a ambit over 500 miles.

To authorize for the Green Car Vision Award, all entrants charge be advancing commercialization, but not yet accessible on a retail basis. They may be in baby lot assembly with added than one alive ancestor bogus or in testing aural a affirmation fleet.

The Ford C-Max Energi is accepted to advertise for about $30K afterwards federal tax credits. It will be absorbing to see how able-bodied it competes with the admirable Prius band already it becomes available.

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