Today's bigger turbines are taller, with blades that spin more slowly, so that birds can more easily see the blades and avoid them, says Chuck McGowin, of the Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto, California.
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.