Ford to Boost Production of Hybrids Tenfold

Ford Motor Co. jumped on the hybrid car bandwagon today with a promise to boost production tenfold to 250,000 cars and trucks per year by 2010, the strongest commitment yet by a Detroit automaker to build gas-electric vehicles.

Speaking in Dearborn, Mich., Bill Ford Jr., the company’s chairman and chief executive, said Ford was acting without prodding from policy makers in the government. He said Ford would choose to be environmentally progressive through hybrid production and “get on with it.”
Washington Post