{"id":724568,"date":"2010-04-27T13:14:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T17:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gas2.org\/?p=7271"},"modified":"2010-04-27T13:14:41","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T17:14:41","slug":"ford-fusion-hybrid-garners-another-win-but-is-it-bad-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/724568","title":{"rendered":"Ford Fusion Hybrid Garners Another Win, But is it Bad Journalism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3994 aligncenter\" title=\"fusion_outside_1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/gas2\/files\/2009\/11\/fusion_outside_1.jpg?resize=500%2C315\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ford is having a great run of it. Just today they announced a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/28\/business\/28ford.html?hp\" >$2.1 billion first quarter 2010 profit<\/a>, which is up from 2009&#8217;s first quarter by $3.5 billion (yep, they lost $1.4 billion in Q1 2009). I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s any other greater vote of confidence in their new line of products than that&#8230; but the good press on their products keeps on coming.<\/p>\n<p>In a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/g\/a\/2010\/04\/22\/investopedia43617.DTL\" >comparison on the San Francisco Chronicle website<\/a>, out of 7 hybrids analyzed the Ford Fusion Hybrid came out number one in terms of how many years it will take to pay off the added cost of the hybrid system versus a non-hybrid model. According to the paper, at only 5.6 years the Fusion Hybrid beats the next closest competitor by almost 6 years. But is the analysis really meaningful or has the SF Chronicle bunged this one up badly?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/04\/27\/ford-fusion-hybrid-garners-another-win-but-is-it-bad-journalism\/#more-7271\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford is having a great run of it. Just today they announced a $2.1 billion first quarter 2010 profit, which is up from 2009&#8217;s first quarter by $3.5 billion (yep, they lost $1.4 billion in Q1 2009). I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s any other greater vote of confidence in their new line of products than that&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-32uA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}