Ford has just revealed certain details about its new electric vehicle strategy. The automaker has signed with a new supplier of batteries for plug-in hybrids, Johnson Controls-Saft, and seven electricity providers will be testing Ford's hybrid vehicles.
The seven providers are:
The partnership with these American companies will allow Ford to speed up its vehicle electrification plan, which includes a 100% electric minivan that could well hit markets in 2010, a sedan developed with Magna International and scheduled for 2011 and a plug-in electric hybrid for 2012.
Ford is known as the first company in the auto industry to have dealt with electricity providers to test its products and to have worked to establish a battery-recharge network. As for the agreement with Johnson Controls-Saft, the automaker will receive 5,000 batteries per year for the next five years.
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The seven providers are:
- New York Power Authority
- Consolidated Edison of New York
- American Electric Power of Columbus, Ohio
- Alabama Power of Birmingham, Alabama, as well as Atlanta-based Southern Company
- Progress Energy of Raleigh, North Carolina
- DTE Energy of Detroit
- National Grid of Waltham, Massachusetts
- New York State Energy and Research Development Authority, a public corporation
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The partnership with these American companies will allow Ford to speed up its vehicle electrification plan, which includes a 100% electric minivan that could well hit markets in 2010, a sedan developed with Magna International and scheduled for 2011 and a plug-in electric hybrid for 2012.
Ford is known as the first company in the auto industry to have dealt with electricity providers to test its products and to have worked to establish a battery-recharge network. As for the agreement with Johnson Controls-Saft, the automaker will receive 5,000 batteries per year for the next five years.
photo:Ford