This is NOT a hybrid. This car is ALL ELECTRIC. No costly gasoline! (:
Like Toyota did when it made the first Prius hybrid, Nissan and Chevy chose to invent new names and shapes for their EVs. Ford is taking a different approach with the 2012 Focus Electric, the company’s first all-electric passenger car. Introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the Focus Electric is based on a regular, soon-to-be-familiar, high-volume production car.
Ford seems less concerned with differentiating the Focus Electric from internal-combustion Focus models than it does with beating its competitors for EV bragging rights—even as, it should be noted, those competitors will have beat it to the electric-car market by about a year.
The Focus Electric will arrive here at the end of 2011 and will spread internationally a year later. Less Power, More Torque, No Gasoline!
The Electric’s guts include a 123-hp electric motor that makes 181 lb-ft of torque from 0 r