Ours (received in Aug. 2012) has been essentially trouble-free and it works even better than I hoped. I do more than my fair share of driving when carpooling with friends, for cost and environmental reasons (less $/mile and lower pollution than their gasoline cars). I really like the idea and the performance of these battery-powered cars, and encourage others to consider them ... but I hesitate to recommend this Ford one because of what I read here, at least until persuaded that the main problems have been solved.
Do YOU recommend it?
There have been plenty of reports on these forums of serious problems in Focus Electrics.
Are those examples of “only bad news gets reported”, and most FFE’s work well?
HOW do you decide?
Going mainly from the data that jmueller065 gathered in his “Stop Safely Now Stats” scorecard, there have been about 37 cars reported to have suffered the “SSN” failure.
Based on the monthly plug-in sales scorecard shown on insideevs.com,
685 FFE’s were sold in 2012, and 900 more in first ½ of 2013, + maybe 160 more in July (extrapolating) for a total of 1745.
That is an SSN in about 2 % of cars ... and we have to assume that others have not shown up here. (Only 134 posts on the “introductions” thread, and some of those were just considering. Other people may not have found this forum ... but perhaps a large % of the unhappy ones have??)
Do YOU recommend it?
There have been plenty of reports on these forums of serious problems in Focus Electrics.
Are those examples of “only bad news gets reported”, and most FFE’s work well?
HOW do you decide?
Going mainly from the data that jmueller065 gathered in his “Stop Safely Now Stats” scorecard, there have been about 37 cars reported to have suffered the “SSN” failure.
Based on the monthly plug-in sales scorecard shown on insideevs.com,
685 FFE’s were sold in 2012, and 900 more in first ½ of 2013, + maybe 160 more in July (extrapolating) for a total of 1745.
That is an SSN in about 2 % of cars ... and we have to assume that others have not shown up here. (Only 134 posts on the “introductions” thread, and some of those were just considering. Other people may not have found this forum ... but perhaps a large % of the unhappy ones have??)