ADVISORY/CALSTART TO Honor Ford Motor Company With 1999 Blue Sky Award At Pasadena Event.

Business Editors/Automotive & Environment Writers

ADVISORY...for Friday (March 3)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

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   International Award Honors Outstanding Marketplace Contributions
            to Clean, Efficient, Sustainable Transportation
              -- Ford, California Official to Attend --

WHAT:     WestStart-CALSTART, the nation's leading advanced
          transportation consortium, will recognize 1999's most
          significant contributors to environmental leadership in
          clean transportation -- Ford Motor Company will receive the
          top Blue Sky Award; the California Fuel Cell Partnership
          will receive recognition with the Blue Sky Innovation Award.
          Three merit award winners will also be honored. The Blue Sky
          Award is given for outstanding marketplace contributions to
          clean, efficient, sustainable transportation; the use of
          clean transportation options; and for significant technology
          breakthroughs that affect the marketplace.

WHERE:    CALSTART's Southern California Facility
          3360 East Foothill Boulevard, cross street Madre
          Pasadena, California

WHEN:     Friday, March 3, 2000
          Lunch                    12:00 noon
          Award Presentation         1:00 p.m.

WHO:      Dr. Alan Lloyd, Chairman of the California Air Resources
          Board; Robert Pernell, Commissioner, California Energy
          Commission; John Wallace, Executive Director Ford Th!nk
          Group and Director of Environmental Vehicles, Ford Motor
          Company; Martin Zimmerman, V.P., Government Affairs, Ford
          Motor Company; Joe Ferguson, AVS; Jeff Pink, President, EV
          Rental Cars; Honorable Jeff Groscost, Speaker, Arizona House
          of Representatives; Michael Gage, WestStart-CALSTART
          President & CEO

VISUALS:  Ford's innovative TH!NK, a two-passenger, plastic body
          urban electric vehicle and the prototype postal service
          electric delivery van, powered by a Ford drive system, will
          be available.

BACKGROUND:
          Each year, WestStart-CALSTART honors those companies,
          organizations or individuals instrumental in bringing the
          most innovative transportation options to market. In 1998,
          the U.S. Postal Service won for being the federal agency
          with the largest number of alternative fuel vehicles in its
          fleets; in 1997, Toyota won for its innovative,
          hybrid-electric Prius sedan; in 1996, General Motors won for
          the market launch of its EV1 electric car. The Blue Sky
          Award is selected by a team of businesses and environmental
          organizations, including the Union of Concerned Scientists,
          the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Coalition for
          Clean Air.