Ford's Fleet Buying Tool Saving Money and the Planet

FLUSHING, Mich - Sifting through the various choices of eco-friendly vehicle options is hard enough when you are looking for a new car, but what if you are responsible for choosing on behalf of your entire company fleet? Talk about pressure. Well, Ford is on your side and here to help with their "Ford Fleet Purchase Planner™", Ford's Fleet Buying Tool, Saving Money and the Planet. The tool can help buyers build an eco-friendly fleet at a low cost. It guides the buyer in choosing from Ford's vehicle lineup, while managing cost and showing how their choices will reduce their company's carbon footprint. With what can be done with analytics, Ford believes that customers shouldn't have to settle for one specific vehicle for an entire fleet, simply based off factors like miles per gallon. 

The Ford Fleet Purchase Planner™ builds a fleet of Ford vehicles, factoring in all environmental concerns, driving habits of employees and amount of ground covered while traveling. After calculating the fleet's environmental impact and cost, the planner allows the buyer to alter the lineup until their impact/cost goals are met. Amazing, right? So amazing in fact that Ford's Fleet Buying Tool, Saving Money and the Planet was one of three finalists for the 2014 Innovative Applications in Analytics Award by INFORMS -the largest association for professionals in analytics. 

The Ford Fleet Purchase Planner is only accessible to companies that are maintaining fleet vehicles. 

If you are the buyer for your family's next vehicle, stop by Delehanty Ford! We have a great selection of safe, highly capable Ford vehicles on our lot. Visit us for a test-drive today! We are located at 1510 E. Pierson Road, Flushing, MI 48433. Feel free to give us a call at (810) 659-5688 with any questions you may have. Family-owned and operated, Delehanty Ford has been serving the Greater Genesee County area for over 65 years with customer satisfaction as our top priority. Our sales and service departments are dedicated to providing the best experience for every customer.

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Ford Escape Uses Recycled Plastic Bottles In Carpeting

FLUSHING, Mich.- As part of Ford Motor Company's commitment to become more environmentally friendly, many vehicles in the automaker's line up are incorporating more sustainable or recycled materials. But Ford's midsize SUV is utilizing one that we're all more than familiar with. The new Ford Escape uses recycled plastic bottles in its carpeting!

Plastic beverage bottles litter our lives--on our desks, at work, at home, in the car, at school--and rather than allowing those bottles to fill landfills, Ford is repurposing them in the form of carpeting in the Ford Escape! It's the first time Ford has used the carpeting in an SUV, but considering sales of the Escape totaled around 277,000 through June of this year, and each vehicle utilizes 25 plastic bottles in its carpeting, the positive impact on the environment is overwhelming! In the first half of this year, nearly 7 million bottles were potentially diverted from landfills, just from the Ford Escape!

Before Ford decides to use any new material, it must pass extensive durability tests to prove that it will enhance the product. Incorporating recycled plastic bottles in the Ford Escape's carpeting actually reduces wear on the carpet too! So you can feel good driving the new Escape knowing that It's doing its part to help the environment.

Discover the new Ford Escape at Delehanty Ford. We're located at 1510 E. Pierson Road, Flushing, MI 48433. Feel free to give us a call at (810) 659-5688 with any questions you may have. Family-owned and operated, Delehanty Ford has been serving the Greater Genesee County area for over 65 years with customer satisfaction as our top priority. Our sales and service departments are dedicated to providing the best experience for every customer.

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Ford F-150 Environmentally Friendly And Tough

FLUSHING, Mich.- Ford Motor Company continuously strives to incorporate recycled content into vehicles, and America's best selling truck is the latest example! The 2014 Ford F-150 is environmentally friendly and tough thanks to the new sustainable materials being used to produce the truck, like rice hulls.

While F-Series trucks already utilize recycled cotton, soybeans, recycled carpet, recycled tires, recycled plastic soda pop and water bottles, and recycled post-industrial plastics, the latest sustainable material being incorporated into production is rice hull-reinforced plastic. Rice hulls are a byproduct of rice grain and is being used to reinforce plastic in a 2014 F-140 electrical harness.

Although Ford is working to make their vehicles more green, the automaker does not sacrifice toughness or durability. After discovering a new sustainable material that can feasibly be used in one of the vehicles, the material must undergo testing to ensure it performs as well if not better than comparable materials. Ford example, the new rice hull-reinforced plastic, which was developed by Ford and RheTech, underwent testing for more than a year. Everything from smell, appearance, functionality, and flammability was examined before the material received approval.

It's obvious that for Ford fuel economy is a top priority, not only to help you save at the pump, but to also improve the automaker's environmental impact. But, it's also important to recognize the impact that can be made by incorporating sustainable materials into the production of vehicles. While multiple Ford vehicles utilize an array of eco-friendly materials, the F-Series alone uses about 10 million pounds of recycled cotton annually thanks to the trucks more than 650,000 sales per year! So you can see how the effect can really add up! For the 2014 model year, the Ford F-150 will be Environmentally Friendly And Tough as Ford plans to source a minimum of 45,000 pounds of rice hulls from Arkansas for the new reinforced plastic.

And, that's all aside from the eco-friendly technologies that Ford has developed for the new F-150. If you're ready for a new ride that is Built Ford Tough...and Green, discover the Ford F-150 at Delehanty Ford. We're located at 1510 E. Pierson Road, Flushing, MI 48433. Feel free to give us a call at (810) 659-5688 with any questions you may have. Family-owned and operated, Delehanty Ford has been serving the Greater Genesee County area for over 65 years with customer satisfaction as our top priority. Our sales and service departments are dedicated to providing the best experience for every customer.

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