Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Text to Start

Ford’s MyFord Mobile app allows Focus Electric drivers to control car functions via a smartphone or website. Drivers can remotely monitor battery life, estimate driving distance on the current charge, search for nearby locations, optimize charging times, monitor their impact on the environment, and even share their stats via social media outlets.


This innovative technology is helping the car industry do what many other companies want to do, sync the SmartPhone that is your life, with your life. MyFord Mobile lets users do the things mentioned above, plus it uses GPS to locate the nearest public charging stations and allows your phone to act as a door lock remote control. With at least a two EVs (Focus and Transit Connect) and a plug-in hybrid (C-Max Energi) on the way in the next couple of years, you can bet Ford will be getting plenty of miles out of this particular relationship between cars and phones, two inventions that have separately dominated the 20th century, but are becoming closer and closer allies in the 21st. 

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