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Workplace Charging Network For Ford Employees
Philippe Crowe September 17, 2013
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Ford is taking measures to ensure its employees could use electric vehicles made by the company; a workplace charging network is being installed at nearly every Ford facility in the U.S. and Canada.
Ford said it plans to install electric vehicle charging stations at more than 50 of its company offices, product development campuses and manufacturing facilities. Installation will begin later this year and roll out across company facilities throughout 2014.
“Ford’s commitment to sustainability extends beyond our fuel-efficient vehicles to include our daily workplace,” said Mike Tinskey, Ford global director of Vehicle Electrification and Infrastructure. “We know that a growing electrified vehicle infrastructure is key to making plug-in vehicles a viable option for more consumers. Ford is committed to doing our part to help grow that infrastructure.”
Ford employees will be able to charge the all-electric Focus Electric, as well as Ford’s two plug-in hybrids – the Fusion Energi and C-MAX Energi – at the charging stations. The service will initially be free to employees daily for the first four hours.
Ford estimates it will cost the company about 50 cents to fully charge a vehicle, saving employees up to $2 in gasoline each day.
According to Ford, its workplace EV chargers are different from competitor programs in that they will be networked together. As a result, the company will be able to gather additional information on electrified vehicle use, such as the number of hours vehicles are charging and the amount of CO2 reduced.
Ford already has more than 1,700 charging stations at Ford dealerships and company facilities in North America. The new workplace chargers will add approximately 200 more.
Throughout the U.S. and Canada, the number of charge stations – both public and residential – is growing rapidly. In 2009, there were 3,000 known public charging stations. Today, there are more than 20,000.
At the same time, the company revealed that Ford Fusion Energi and C-MAX Energi drivers typically make three of their four daily trips in all-electric mode, based on data from the MyFord Mobile app. In fact, every 10 days, Ford customers altogether drive approximately 1 million miles on electricity alone. In total, Ford said its customers now have logged 30 million all-electric miles driving the full range of plug-in vehicles, saving more than 1.2 million kilograms of CO2.
Considering current customer data from the Fusion Energi and CMAX Energi is showing that three of every four trips are accomplished on electricity alone, Ford believes that by adding another charge during the day at the workplace, it is likely that employees will be able to accomplish all of their work week trips without using gasoline.
Ford qualifies what is happening in electrified vehicle sales as a sales success.
The popularity of Ford’s electrified vehicles led to the company’s best-ever retail U.S. sales results for Fusion Energi and C-MAX Energi plug-in hybrid vehicles in August. That contributed to Ford’s best August electrified vehicle sales ever, with 8,292 vehicles sold, up 288 percent over the same period a year ago.
August also marked the 11th consecutive month Ford achieved electrified vehicle sales records. Nearly two-thirds of new Ford electrified vehicle sales are coming from buyers trading in other car brands.
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