Categories: Auto Finance

Ford Motor Credit Company reported net income of $2 billion in 2010, an improvement of $0.7 billion from earnings of $1.3 billion a year earlier.

https://www.fi-magazine.com/318960/ford-credit-reports-preliminary-earnings-of-2-billion-in-2010

Categories: Electric Vehicles, Sustainability, Vehicle OEM, Vehicle Research, Vehicles

The Ford E-450 bus with regenerative braking has a minium full-charge range of 110 miles, making it ideal for short campus and airport-hotel loops.

https://www.greenfleetmagazine.com/10112215/metro-titan-debuts-all-electric-cutaway-shuttle-bus

Categories: Operations, Safety, Safety & Risk Management, Vehicle OEM, Vehicle Research

Commercial fleets, including those in the pharmaceutical industry, use an array of tools and perks, such as in-vehicle infotainment that can keep drivers...

https://www.worktruckonline.com/157748/in-vehicle-entertainment-proliferates-for-fleet-drivers

Categories: Safety, Shared Mobility, Vehicle OEM

The first Ford-built powered air-purifying respirators, developed in close collaboration with 3M, are on their way to help protect health care workers...

https://www.fleetforward.com/358789/ford-and-3m-shipping-respirators-washable-gowns

Categories: Green Fleet, Operations

MEMPHIS, TN- ARS/Rescue Rooter has deployed of 21 propane autogas cargo and cutaway vans in the Los Angeles and Houston areas.

https://www.worktruckonline.com/75121/roush-cleantech-rolls-out-propane-autogas-ford-vans-to-ars-rescue-rooter

Categories: Procedures & Policies, Vehicle Ops

The California Highway Patrol's Capt. Bill Peters, commander of the CHP's Fleet Operations Section, is lobbying for more than half of an order of about 750...

https://www.policemag.com/347410/california-governor-curtails-chps-purchase-of-new-patrol-vehicles

Categories: Vehicle Ops

Ford is hosting a nationwide ride-and-drive tour with the all-new 2021 F-150 Police Responder and the Police Interceptor Utility. The tour begins in August...

https://www.policemag.com/614638/fords-police-vehicle-tour-begins-in-august

Categories: Maintenance, Operations, Rental Operations

Overall new-vehicle quality declined slightly among vehicles sold in 2013 as automakers dealt with challenges caused by integrating more sophisticated...

https://www.worktruckonline.com/118779/j-d-power-announces-2015-initial-quality-study

Categories: Operations, Safety

Ford will offer a rotary shifter that returns its 2017 Fusion to park when the driver exits the car so the sedan is less likely to roll away, according to Ford.

https://www.automotive-fleet.com/138058/2017-ford-fusion-s-return-to-park-shifter-reduces-rollaways

Categories: Industry

Ford Motor Co. is recalling about 74,000 older model Ford Escape and Mercury Mariner crossover vehicles because the electronic hybrid system may overheat,...

https://www.agent-entrepreneur.com/341313/ford-recalls-multiple-vehicles-and-gm-halts-some-corvette-sales