Ford Envisions a Future

The World Trade Center Transportation Hub was developed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey as a massive complex for trains and subways going in and out of New York. The facility, designed by Spanish architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava, was opened in March 2016, with the PATH station that had been […]

Ford Studio 2000X: Creating the Future

Jeff Nowak shows a film clip of a 2015 Ford Edge in action. It is exceedingly high-def. The lights glint off the sheet metal and the glass; the edges are crisp; the colors are rich and bright. One thing about this. It isn’t real. There is no 2015 Ford Edge in the film. There is […]

Ford’s Approach to Additive Manufacturing

Although 3D printing has become something that is hip an almost artisanal among the digital cognoscenti and within the maker movement, there is the set that contains 3D printing as a subset—additive manufacturing—which is something that is being pursued in earnest by a number of mass manufacturers in order to achieve parts and products the […]

Fuel Cells for Big Rigs

The Port of Los Angeles—which measures 7,500 acres, 4,300 of which are land and the remainder water—is the number-one port in the U.S. based on container volume ranking. Last year it handled 182.8 million metric volume tons. According to Sheldon Z. Brown, on a daily basis some 16,000 Class 8 trucks make their way into […]