Comments on: Ford Focus Electric Gets Powered Up

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 03:01:05 +0000

Well it’ll be nice to see Ford to finally release an electric car sometime in 2011 that will be sweet and I do very much hope that the American car companies will truly be what they were once in the past decades when it comes to great cars as in quality plus bringing better fuel efficiency or best of all no emissions at all and I do hope my mom and dad will be driving a plug-in hybrid or an electric car in the future once they look at these vehicles in the future they’ll find out how much money they can save compare to a conventional gas car and no I’m not a kid I’m a young adult just saying. One more thing Ford bring it on let the electric revolution begin!

By: Stan

Stan — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:32:32 +0000

where can a person go for training to work on electric Fords? I live in Georgia and would like to be one of the first to work on a new field automotive service.

By: Nolan Tressler

Nolan Tressler — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:46:10 +0000

this is awesome!!!

By: samuel silverman

samuel silverman — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:52:27 +0000

When will the ecectric fiesta be available, and when can cistomers put down a deposit to get one? The dealerships have no information. Thank you.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:55:06 +0000

The Nissan Leaf should run about $35K. A Versa costs 11-15k. You can buy a LOT of
gas for $20,000! I hope the electric Focus costs (eventually- after all the “new” dies down- much
like any new electronic device) about 15K. And why not? There’s no emission control, transmission,
bulky internal-combustion engine or messy fluids. I hope Ford takes the lead and gives us an
AFFORDABLE electric vehicle.

By: EGM

EGM — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:07:28 +0000

60 mph requires ~ 12 kW (16 hp) to sustain the battery.
Sun = 1 kw/sq.m, at 20% eff. 60 sq.m (640 sq.ft) required.
You’d need a flat deck trailer 8 ft x 80 ft.
Current panels are $2.50/Watt = $30,000.
Have fun driving for “free”.

By: L. Adams

L. Adams — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:34:31 +0000

Add a solar panel to the electric Focus and I will buy one—-be like driving for free.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:40:19 +0000

@ Thomas Arms

Top Gear did a review of the Tesla Roadster sports car which is over $100,000 dollars. they found that when they drove it like a sports car (which it is) they couldn’t get more then 55 miles per charge. The real next gen car will be hydrogen fuel cell powered.

By: Ana Watson

Ana Watson — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:59:29 +0000

Great News,
It will be great relief for many car owners. Due to increasing rate of fuel many car owners pocket was badly effected. We all know ford is one of the best reputed brands all over the world this electric cars will be in good demand as it has ford brand name but ford has to provide many stations to keep the reputation of car good.

By: J Daniels

J Daniels — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:55:45 +0000

I came across an interesting read the other day: p. 318 of the Iacocca autobiography, and hope it helps in our US automotive manufacturing sector.

All proceeds from the book go to the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston (Bantam Books)
And think it should be required reading: It’s like looking through a 1984 mirror and finding today, almost verbatim. Thanks for your time.