EcoBoost = good news: Ford will re-open Cleveland plant to build cleaner engines

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:00:00 +0000

Click above for a gallery of the 2010 Lincoln MKS Ford’s EcoBoost engines are a fairly simple technology and, while they’re certainly not going to achieve 100 mpg, these 3.5-liter V6 powerplants are ready right now and will be available in four 2010 models: the Lincoln MKS, Lincoln MKT, Ford Taurus SHO and Ford Flex. In fact, the 3.5L EcoBoost V6 is so ready to go that Ford has announced it will reopen the Cleveland Engine Plant No. 1 to build it. This plant will be the first Ford manufacturing site in the world to produce EcoBoost engines. This is great news for Cleveland, as the plant has been idle since 2007. It was first opened in 1951 and Ford spent $55 million to give it flexible manufacturing capabilities. Unfortunately, no new jobs will be created as 250 employees from other areas of the plant site will be retrained and used. This is all good news even if you don’t have ties to The Forest City because the 3.5L EcoBoost V6 improves fuel economy by 20 percent while dropping CO 2 emissions by 15 percent. The engine will be standard on the SHO and available an option for the other three models. To dig into the nuts and bolts of the technology, check out this post (and this one ) and Car Blog Greenmore about the reopening of Cleveland Engine Plant No. 1 after the jump. Gallery: Lincoln MKS with EcoBoost [Source: Ford] Continue reading EcoBoost = good news: Ford will re-open Cleveland plant to build cleaner engines Auto Blog: Emerging Technologies , MPG , Ford , Green Daily EcoBoost = good news: Ford will re-open Cleveland plant to build cleaner engines originally appeared on AutoblogGreen on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds .Car Blog Green | Car Blog Green | Car Blog Green

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Mascoma pilot plant starts generating cellulosic ethanol

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:52:00 +0000

Mascoma Corporation’s first pilot plant in Rome, New York has now begun to produce cellulosic ethanol. Mascoma is one of two cellulosic ethanol companies that got equity investments from General Motors in early 2008, the other being Coskata . The Rome plant has an annual capacity of 200,000 gallons of ethanol produced from non-food biomass. Mascoma recieved grants from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and the New York State Power Authority (NYPA) to help pay for the construction of the plant. Mascoma is currently purchasing wood chips from a local sawmill for feed-stocks but the plant is capable of using a wide variety of materials, including corn stover, sugar cane bagasse and grasses. A commercial scale plant using Mascoma’s technology is being developed in Kinross, Michigan. [Source: Mascoma] Continue reading Mascoma pilot plant starts generating cellulosic ethanol Auto Blog: Ethanol Mascoma pilot plant starts generating cellulosic ethanol originally appeared on AutoblogGreen on Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds .Car Blog Green | Car Blog Green | Car Blog Green

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