As Ford's investment in electrified vehicles such as Fusion Hybrid increased, so did the size of the Sustainable Mobility Technologies team behind it, said Chuck Gray, Ford chief engineer, Global Core Engineering Hybrid and Electric Vehicles.

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"Being able to provide our customers with the best overall efficiency of any retail EV has always been a key target for the Spark EV engineering team, " said Pam Fletcher, GM executive chief engineer for electrified vehicles.

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Chief Engineer Anthony Gervasio and Qualified Member of the Engineering Department (QMED) Louis Longlois, crewmembers of the offshore supply vessel Damon B.

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Their chief engineer was William Douglass, part of the Douglass family who were legends in the lighthouse-engineering business.

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