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Ford Motor Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3270 words) |
 | Ford personally) stunned the industry and pleased environmentalists with an announcement of a planned 25 percent improvement in the average mileage of its light truck fleet — including its popular SUVs — to be completed by the 2005 calendar year. |
| William Ford was also one of the first top industry executives to make regular use of an battery electric vehicle, a Ford Ranger EV, while the company contracted with the United States Postal Service to deliver electric postal vans based on the Ranger EV platform. |
| Ford came to India in 1998 with its Ford Escort model, which was later replaced by locally produced Ford Ikon in 2001. |
| Encyclopedia4U - Ford Motor Company - Encyclopedia Article (796 words) |
| Ford implemented the ideas of Eli Whitney, who developed the first assembly line using interchangeable parts, which made it possible to put the cars together at a much lower cost and with greater reliability and repeatability. |
| By the end of 1913 Ford was producing 50% of all cars in the America, and by 1918 half of all cars in the country were Model Ts. |
| The Ford Motor Company has denied allegations that they profited by the use of forced labor to produce tanks for the Nazis during the war, saying that Ford had lost control of the German division by that point in the war and was not responsible for its activities. |
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