Performance Summary
The table below provides three-year performance data according to a set of key indicators.
In previous sustainability reports, we organized our data and indicators around Ford's Business Principles. This year - although most of the indicators themselves are the same as in years past - they have been organized into the broader categories of Economy, Environment and Society. This shift mirrors the organization of our Web report and represents an internal evolution in our approach to sustainability. It also aligns the report more clearly with the Global Reporting Initiative's guidelines.
This report covers the year 2007 and early 2008. The data are primarily for 2007 (for operations) and for the 2007 and 2008 model years (for vehicles). The data cover all of Ford Motor Company's wholly and majority-owned operations globally, unless otherwise noted. Changes in the basis for reporting or reclassifications of data previously reported are noted below.
This report is aligned with the Global Reporting Initiative's G3 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines, released in October 2006, at a self-declared application level of "A". See the GRI index for a complete index of GRI indicators.
| 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ford U.S. fleet fuel economy (higher mpg reflects improvement), combined car and truck, miles per gallon1 | 24.1 | 23.8 | 25.3 |
| Ford U.S. fleet CO2 emissions (lower grams per mile reflects improvement), combined car and truck, grams per mile2 | 368 | 371 | 352 |
| European CO2 performance (lower percentage reflects improvement), percent of 1995 base (1995 base = 100 percent)3 | |||
| Ford | 78 | 78 | 78 |
| Jaguar | 62 | 66 | 67 |
| Land Rover | 88 | 89 | 86 |
| Volvo | 87 | 86 | 84 |
| Worldwide facility energy consumption, trillion BTUs4 | 66.7 | 71.5 | 63.3 |
| Worldwide facility energy consumption per vehicle, million BTUs5 | 10.7 | 11.8 | 10.7 |
| Worldwide facility CO2 emissions, million metric tonnes4 | 8.0 | 6.8 | 5.8 |
| Worldwide facility CO2 emissions per vehicle, metric tonnes5 | 1.26 | 1.13 | 0.97 |
| North American Energy Efficiency Index (lower percentage reflects improvement), percent (2000 base = 100 percent)6 | 83.4 | 78.4 | 74.4 |
NOTES TO THE DATA
U.S. fuel economy
See the Climate Change and Environment sections for a discussion of our Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) performance. For the 2007 model year the CAFE of our cars and trucks increased 5.9 percent. Preliminary data for the 2008 model year shows a 0.7 percent improvement in CAFE compared to 2007, with a 1.3 percent improvement for cars and a 4.0 percent improvement for trucks. Improvement is reflected by increasing miles per gallon. The percentage improvement in CAFE for cars and trucks combined is lower than the respective percentages for both cars and trucks primarily because the ratio of trucks to cars manufactured is projected to increase from 2007 to 2008. Also, the CAFE figure is calculated based on volume of vehicles manufactured as well as the fuel economy of each individual vehicle.U.S. fleet CO2 emissions
See the Climate Change section for a discussion of our CO2 emissions performance. Improvement is reflected by decreasing grams per mile.European CO2 performance
Official EU data. Jaguar performance did not improve compared to 2005 and 2006 due to model mix.Worldwide facility energy and CO2 emissions
Data have been adjusted to account for facilities that were closed, sold or new. These data do not include Automotive Component Holdings (ACH). These data have been adjusted to remove Jaguar and Land Rover (JLR) in consideration of the pending sale of these brands.-
Energy and CO2 per vehicle
Energy consumption and CO2 emissions per vehicle divides energy used or CO2 emitted by the number of vehicles produced. Averaging energy and CO2 emissions by the number of vehicles produced yields a somewhat imperfect indicator of production efficiency. When the number of vehicles produced declines, as it has since 2000, per-vehicle energy use tends to rise because a portion of the resources used by a facility is required for base facility operations, regardless of the number of vehicles produced.We believe that stable-to-declining per-vehicle energy use and CO2 emissions indicate that more-efficient production since 2000 is offsetting the tendency of these indicators to rise during periods of declining production. This interpretation is reinforced by our Energy Efficiency Index, which focuses on production energy efficiency, and which has been steadily improving. Our Energy Efficiency Index target also has the effect of driving reductions in CO2 emissions.
These data do not include our Automotive Components Holdings (ACH) facilities. Also, the data have been adjusted to remove Jaguar and Land Rover (JLR) in consideration of the pending sale of these brands.
North American Energy Efficiency Index
The Index is "normalized" based on an engineering calculation that adjusts for typical variances in weather and vehicle production. The Index was set at 100 for the year 2000 to simplify tracking against our target of one percent improvement in energy efficiency. This data have been adjusted to remove Jaguar and Land Rover (JLR) in consideration of the pending sale of these brands.