Comments on: Ford Focus Electric Coming Soon

By: Lance

Lance — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 05:21:06 +0000

I want to buy this Focus Electric and a Coleman Generator for the trunk to trickle charge my battery back to life if I run the battery down and am stuck on the side of the road.

By: Stu

Stu — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:11:08 +0000

Julius. Your battery assumptions are pretty conservative. I have 160,000 miles on my Prius batteries with no sign of deterioration. They\\\’re not lithium–I don\’t know how much difference that makes. I don\’t know a single Prius owner who has had to replace batteries, other than those involved in a collision. Also, $7500 seems a bit steep. If your numbers are accurate, I don\’t see much future for electric cars.

By: David Goldberg

David Goldberg — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 22:41:55 +0000

I would like to see a portable battery pack that could be plugged in to extend the range for the rare trips I take over 100 miles. It can go in the passenger compartment, motor compartment, trunk or on the roof.

By: Felix Crash

Felix Crash — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:25:06 +0000

So, what do you do when it rains?

Get big towels to mop up the road?

By: John Bill

John Bill — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:31:35 +0000

Will the price be close to regular Focus I have now? I just want to say I love my 2010 Focus but will trade it in for one of these in a heartbeat if it is priced in the same range. Also any plans to partner with a Solar Panel company for a really clean charge?

By: julius

julius — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:13:10 +0000

What is the efficiency of the recharger ? we have a 23KW battery – but how many KW’s does it take ot recharge it ?

By: julius

julius — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 13:48:05 +0000

has nayone figured the replacement cost of the battery and what it averages per mile — especiallyif you u add it to the mileage figures ? Off hand a $ 7,500 batter replacment at even 100,000 miles means it cost 7.5 cents extra per mile .

Figureing a gas car at 20 mpg and $ 3,00 gallon gas = 0.15
Figureing a gas car at 30 mpg and $ 3,00 gallon gas = 0.10

Electric $ 3.00 at 100 miles = 0.033 cents plus 7.5 cents – 11.83 cents

comments from others ?

By: Joneszee

Joneszee — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:34:39 +0000

Good point you are making on foreign oil imports. Here is some food for thought…
Stop the ‘outflow’ of money for foreign oil and put it to work in the USA. According to the DOE, the US imported over 4,000,000,000 barrels of oil last year. @ $70 per barrel, that’s amounts to over $280 billion flowing to other countries. Think what that would mean if the oil was produced from our own reserves here in the USA.. This would put the $ into US pockets. You talk about a ’shot-in-the-arm’ to the US economy.
I do like the idea of green, but it will take time and new technology to get us there.

By: David Emel

David Emel — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:58:25 +0000

Seems to me, we could combine 2 problems into one solution. Our eletrical grid is designed for the 20th century and very expensive to maintain. Why not introduce to toll roads, a combined highway and electrical grid where the pulsing 60Hz is run on the center hump AND accessible to electric vehicles for durration travel? Maybe that is asking too much from planners?

By: ptribe77

ptribe77 — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:24:30 +0000

I’ve done the research on EVs and I’m firmly convinced that this is the transportation of the future. There is simply no other viable alternative out there that can fill the void once fossil fuel prices skyrocket. I’m active duty military and will be buying one of these cars as soon as we get back from this hell hole in a year. Buy one too and keep us military guys home with our families.