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Ford will debut the Fiesta ECOnetic hatchback at the London motor show

The new Ford Fiesta ECOnetic will be unveiled at next month's London motor show, a company source has revealed.The ultra-efficient, stylish Fiesta hatchback will produce less than 100g/km of CO2, equivalent to more than 70mpg, pitching it directly against the VW Polo Bluemotion as the most fuel-efficient family car in the UK.The new Ford Fiesta weighs around 50kg less than the previous model and will be powered by a 1.4-litre turbodiesel engine, built at Ford's wind-powered plant in Dagenham.The production-ready Ford Fiesta, which was revealed at the Geneva motor show in March, bears a striking resemblance to the Verve concept car, though it has not retained the frameless doors of the concept.

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sirichmond 5 July 2008

Re: 100g/km Ford Fiesta at London show

This new Fiesta is going to be good, as a memebr of the tdciforum we have a lot of members with current Fiestas espcially the 1.6tdci model. Now they remap to around 130bhp pretty easilly and if they are free to tax game on, will surely wipe the floor with the Polo Bluemotion and its old tech engine.

Mini1 23 June 2008

Re: 100g/km Ford Fiesta at London show

Good to see another relatively important debut at the London Show. Hopefully the rest of the new Fiestas will be there too! Well done, Ford.

NiallOswald 23 June 2008

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loather wrote:

Also, from a quick look at Ford's and Ecotricity's spiel on this initiative one can see that the utilisation of the two, soon to be three turbines is particularly woeful:

two 1.8MW capacity turbines(3.6MW combined) generate 6.7 million kWh annually. Assuming 24 hour, 7 day running, 365 days a year that's a 20(21.2)% or so utilisation. That's even less than the typcally claimed 25% utilisation for current turbines.

Poor 'utilisation' is just a fact of life with wind turbines. From the Danish Wind Industry Association website:

"The Capacity Factor Paradox

Although one would generally prefer to have a large capacity factor, it may not always be an economic advantage. This is often confusing to people used to conventional or nuclear technology.
In a very windy location, for instance, it may be an advantage to use a larger generator with the same rotor diameter (or a smaller rotor diameter for a given generator size). This would tend to lower the capacity factor (using less of the capacity of a relatively larger generator), but it may mean a substantially larger annual production, as you can verify using the Power calculator on this web site.
Whether it is worthwhile to go for a lower capacity factor with a relatively larger generator, depends both on wind conditions, and on the price of the different turbine models of course.
Another way of looking at the capacity factor paradox is to say, that to a certain extent you may have a choice between a relatively stable power output (close to the design limit of the generator) with a high capacity factor - or a high energy output (which will fluctuate) with a low capacity factor."