Its official Ford Motor Co. announces that they already started shipping its first electric passenger car this past weekend. Approximately about 350 Focus Electric cars will be sent all over 67 dealers in California, New Jersey and New York in the next couple weeks “lol and hopefully Ford will include sending this trims to their dealer here in Philippines.”
To sum up, for the pioneer released and display each of the centers will get about six units of Electric Ford Focus that will serve as demonstration units.

“We are still on track to begin shipping the Focus Electric this spring,” Ford spokesman Wes Sherwood said.

Ford expects hybrids, plug-in hybrids and electric cars will represent up to 25 percent of its sales by 2020, with hybrids accounting for the majority.

It’s said that Americans have been slowly adopting electric cars due to their high cost and concerns over their range. And it’s maybe because many automakers have also improved the fuel efficiency of their traditional gas-powered engines more quickly than expected.

But been difficult to forecast whats in the mind of the consumer on what they prefer in the future that’s why Ford modified Focus platform and arrived to build an electric and gas powered versions on the same assembly line. Making this Focus Electric in reality allows Ford to maintain reasonable margins on this EV are which turned to be costly because of the price of its battery.

According to Ford the battery they used in all electric vehicle such as the Focus EV will cost between $12,000 and $15,000 which makes an overall Focus EV price representation of about $39,000

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