Ford Focus Electric News
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If you're trying to get your hands on a plug-in Ford, it should soon get a little easier. Ford will more than quadrouple the number of dealers able to sell its plug-in models, the Ford Focus Electric, C-Max Energi plug-in hybrid and Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid this year. According to The Detroit News, more than 900 dealers will be eligible to sell the vehicles by this spring, up from 200 near the end of last year. The first 67 Ford dealers were certified to sell the brand's electric models last April. Those dealers were located in California, New York and New Jersey, but boosted by the...
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Ford Focus Electric Incentives: $10K Off 3-Year Lease Or $2K Cash
We've clearly not seen the back of tempting electric car leasing deals. One Mitsubishi dealer is offering the "i" electric car for as little as $69 per month for example, and Ford is now offering hefty discounts on its Focus Electric. Lease buyers can get up to $10,750 off the cost of a three-year...
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Ford Focus Electric A Compliance Car? Ford Swears It's Not
There are two kinds of electric cars on sale in the U.S. these days. The first kind--the ones you should pay attention to--are the volume electric cars. Their makers want to sell as many as they can. The second kind are the "compliance cars," built solely to meet California regulations that require...
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$199-A-Month Lease On 2012 Ford Focus Electric Matches Nissan
Ford is enticing new customers to its Focus Electric with headline lease offers of $199 a month.
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So What's An 'MPGe' Anyway? Ford Explains It All For You
If you've been looking at buying a new electric car, you'll have noticed a slightly different measurement of economy on the official labels: MPGe. But what does MPGe actually mean? Luckily, Ford is here to help you, so check out the video above to learn more. Effectively, MPGe is a measure that...
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2012 Ford Focus Electric SmartPhone App, Website, Goes Live
According to our own reckoning, Ford hasn’t really sold that many 2012 Ford Focus Electric cars to non fleet customers. For those who have made the purchase however, the automaker has announced its smartphone iPhone app and website are now live, letting customers remotely interact with their...
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If reader response is any guide, there's a lot of interest in the 2012 Ford Focus Electric--which logged 12 sales last December and January but hasn't been heard from since. Now, it appears that the first retail customer has taken delivery of Ford's new all-electric compact hatchback. Very, very quietly. According to the MyFocusElectric.com forum, a buyer from Charlotte, North Carolina, was so eager to get a Focus Electric that he drove to Long Island, outside New York City, to take delivery. Ford is initially selling Focus Electrics only in California and New York, but engineer Whit Gallman...
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2012 Ford Focus Electric: Overly Timid Or Cleverly Cautious?
By carefully controlling the launch of the 2012 Ford Focus Electric, Ford is trying to appease buyers who want an electric car, while satisfying accountants who are hesitant to invest heavily in the launch.
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Jay Leno Drives The Focus Electric And Fusion Plug-In Hybrid
Comedian and television host Jay Leno comes away quite impressed with the 2012 Ford Focus Electric after taking one for a quick spin.
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2012 Ford Focus Electric: First Drive
The 2012 Ford Focus Electric is the company's first-ever production battery-electric vehicle, and that alone makes it noteworthy. But the fact that it's also pleasant to drive--somewhat on the fun side of unremarkable--means that it's the first compact all-electric competitor to the Nissan Leaf...
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2012 Ford Focus Electric To Pace NASCAR Race
Since it was officially launched at the end of last year, only a handful of 2012 Ford Focus Electric hatchbacks have been sold. That’s hardly surprising considering Ford has been particularly cautious about spending large amounts of money advertising its first production electric car. In...
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2012 Ford Focus Electric: Small Ad Budget Due To Low Sales Of Volt, Fisker
Earlier this week, Ford announced it had signed a deal with troubled Internet content provider Yahoo to stream 10 episodes of an Internet reality show centered on its 2012 Ford Focus Electric. Called Plugged In, the show will send teams of contestants to various U.S. cities in Ford's battery...
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Men's Health magazine will drive a 2012 Ford Focus Electric from New York to Los Angeles, recharging 40 to 55 times along the way.
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2012 Ford Focus Electric: 105 MPGe, 76-Mile Range...10 Sales
It's the first battery-electric car from a global automaker, a compact hatchback eagerly awaited for years and touted by some as a revolutionary vehicle that will change the way we drive forever. It's not the Nissan Leaf. It is, instead, the 2012 Ford Focus Electric, which earned a higher...
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2012 Ford Focus Electric Won’t Be Available Outside NY, CA Until Sept.
Back in November, we reported that Ford was planning on starting deliveries of its 2012 Ford Focus Electric to customers in New York and California before the end of 2011, with sales in other areas due to follow some time this year. In reality, while Ford technically did get all-electric Focuses to...
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Ford: Using Apps To Maximize Your Electric Car Experience
Electric cars might have been killed off a couple of times in the past, but the current wave appears to have hit at just the right time. It's not all to do with concerns over global warming or energy prices though - it's the potential to be more connected to your car than ever before - via...
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2012 Ford Focus Electric: How It's Built On Same Assembly Line (Video)
With the first sales of the 2012 Ford Focus Electric registered last month, Ford's battery-electric compact hatchback enters the market to compete with the Nissan Leaf and other plug-in cars. Unlike the Leaf, though, the Focus Electric is an adaptation of a high-volume gasoline-powered car. And...
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Ford Shares More About Delayed 2012 Focus Electric Car
Ford’s first all-electric mass-produced car, the 2012 Ford Focus, isn’t yet available to buy in the U.S., but Ford thinks the delay in bringing it to market will be well worth the wait. With what Ford claims will be a best-in-class fuel efficiency of 100 MPGe, and plenty of patented...
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Only a handful of 2012 Ford Focus Electrics are likely to be sold by the end of calendar 2011.
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Ford Focus Electric Vs Chevy Volt: Which Would You Buy, And Why?
Well, now the news is out: The 2012 Ford Focus Electric, the company's first-ever mass-market battery electric vehicle, will be priced at $39,995. Perhaps not coincidentally, that's exactly the price of the 2012 Chevrolet Volt, crosstown rival GM's extended-range electric vehicle (achieved by some...
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BREAKING: 2012 Ford Focus Electric, Order From $39,995
The 2012 Ford Focus Electric is a car we seem to have been waiting for forever, but today Ford has finally announced pricing and opened up the order books. We've seen the car develop over the past few years and now potential owners will now get to build and reserve their Focus Electric. The price...
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2012 Ford Focus Electric Won’t Have a Pedestrian Alert Noisemaker
For some time now there’s been a battle raging between politicians, advocacy groups and the electric car industry over compulsory noise-makers in electric cars. Now the latest twist comes courtesy of Ford, which has announced that its 2012 Ford Focus Electric will initially ship without any...
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No, 2012 Ford Focus Electrics Don’t Have Roof-Mounted Solar Panels
Back in August, Ford announced that it would enter into a partnership with solar panel firm SunPower to help 2012 Ford Focus Electric owners install photovoltaic solar panels on their houses, which could let them power their cars from solar energy. Called “Drive Green For Life”, the...
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Electric-Car Education: As Important For Salespeople As Car Buyers
Although it’s almost a year since the 2011 Nissan Leaf and 2011 Chevrolet Volt officially launched in key electric car markets, the majority of the U.S. population have yet to see their first highway capable electric car. So its no surprise that automakers are spending a lot of time and...
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