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President Obama announced last year an agreement with thirteen major auto makers to increase average fuel economy to 54.5 MPG by the model year 2025. Ford, GM, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Honda, Chrysler, Hyundai, BMW, Jaguar/Land Rover, Kia, Toyota and Volvo all agreed to the new standard. In...

If you've been here before, you came through FordFocusElectricForum.com After numerous emails from people we've decided to change the name, making it shorter, easier to remember, easier to type, and also easier to notice that we are affiliated with the http://www.MyNissanLeaf.com forum. To...

The Comuta was shown at the Geneva auto show in 1967, and Ford brought it back out this year to commemorate 100 years of manufacturing in the UK. The Ford Focus platform that the Ford Focus Electric is being built on is currently the UK's best selling automobile - it will be interesting to see...

Ford announced last week that the Ford Focus Sedan (non Electric Ford Focus) with the Super Fuel Economy package (SFE) will make over 40 MPG on the highway. The most interesting feature is what Ford calls an 'Active Grill Shutter System'. The car automatically opens the grill when the engine...

The Center for Automotive research did a study and has released a forecast of EV sales. This newest study focuses on the expected deployment of vehicles by the state they are deployed in. By using hybrid vehicle history, they estimated in what order, and how many of the Ford Focus Electric car...

Ford missed no opportunity to talk up the ability of its Focus Electric at it's unveiling at CES. The FOrd Focus Electric will have the ability to charge in half the time of the Nissan Leaf when connected to a Level 2 (220 - 240V) charger - the type that Best Buy will gladly install for you for...

Thanks for beating the dead horse hobbit - or more specifically for linking the PDF and providing sources for your info. A lot of what floats around in the EV world is heresay, but more of it is backed up by real data which makes it harder to argue.

Although I liked the other template better, it had issues with the layout when you went to send a private message etc. This is the stock template that ships with PHPBB and it's been tested and proven time and time again. Just wanted to let all you Ford Focus Electric Forum users know! Thanks.

I was distracted by this for a while today at work: http://www.rmauctions.com/FeatureCars.cfm?SaleCode=LF10&CarID=r220&fc=0 It's the villains car from the James Bond Die Another Day film. Remember the chase on the ice? This is a custom 4x4 version of the jaguar so that it could drive safely...

BetterPlace seems to be quite secretive about when/where/how they are going to do this... Any press coverage out there just talks about the idea, not about how or even if they are still going to do it. I think there are some major hurdles they need to overcome first: - electric vehicles need to...

Check out this article on Ford's website about the start-stop system: http://www.thefordstory.com/our-articles/auto-show-coverage/2011-naias/ford-auto-start-stop-system-is-coming-to-north-america/ Apparently this technology is already in some of the Ford Hybrid's - because the gasoline engine...

Yes please, take pictures! And let us know if the Ford Focus Electric is as cool as we all hope it is!