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City Driver, Country Driver, or Switch: Doherty Ford Has the Hybrid for You

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Does your daily drive keep you confined to the city limits of Forest Grove, Cornelius, or Hillsboro? Do you work close to where you live, and spend most of your time fighting traffic?

The Ford Focus Electric is the perfect car to keep your commute completely gasoline-free. While gas engines struggle with stop-and-go traffic, electric motors thrive, and this pure battery-electric vehicle has a range up to 115 miles.

What if you're a country driver, facing a long commute from your rural home to your job in town? The Fusion Hybrid isn't limited by its battery life—it…

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Ford Targets Further Water Usage Reduction by 2020

In a recent press release from the Ford Motor Company, the automaker announced a new goal of reducing its water usage for the vehicle manufacturing process. By the year 2020, Ford aims to reduce its water usage per vehicle by nearly three-fourths, saving more than 10 billion gallons of water. With only one percent of the Earth's water available for human use, Ford has targeted a long-term goal of zero potable...

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Ford fights climate change with sustainably engineered plastics

If you're anything like us, you're concerned about the environment. With April shattering the global temperature average, the threat of climate change has never been more real or present. But we can each to do our part to help combat climate change, and Ford is leading the charge. Earlier today, Ford announced that it had developed a sustainable new practice to manufacture automotive plastics and foam via recaptured carbon emissions.

 

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