Even as Tesla scrambles to master the production challenges of making its first mass-market electric car, the Model 3, the company is moving to add two high-end versions of the vehicle — versions that its chief, Elon Musk, said may be crucial to its profitability.
But "Dangerous Minds" is the star-vehicle version of this tale, formatted to match every other account of a dedicated teacher taming rebellious teens.
Well, the French electric-vehicle version.
Ford supplied cars, including the starring vehicle, a version of the Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 KR, and viewers could enter a contest to win Ford vehicles on a section of the NBC Web site (nbc.com/knightrider).
On Wednesday, the Sierra Club issued a statement praising the Ford Motor Company, which is poised to become the world's first automaker to sell a hybrid sport utility vehicle, a version of its Escape S.U.V.
Ford plans to start selling the first hybrid sport utility vehicle, a version of its Escape, in August, starting at just under $27,000, or about $3,300 more than the comparably equipped conventional Escape.
Ford's first hybrid vehicle, a version of the compact Escape sport utility, won't go on sale until late 2004.
The Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle (PHEV) version of the Transit is one of 13 total new electric or hybrid vehicles that Ford will introduce globally over the course of the five years, including a hybrid Mustang, F-150 and other cars to be announced later.
In October, it canceled the vehicle-mounted version of JTRS, the most important of the new radios, which by then had grown to the size of a dormitory-sized refrigerator.
There was some confusion caused the evening before we went public, when I mistakenly assumed in conversations with CNN and the NYT that the SA-24s were manpads, instead of vehicle-mounted versions.
