Electric Focus on sale within the year

Ford will launch a Focus EV during 2016 – and add another 13 such cars within the next five years
Soon, Ford dealers will have an electric focus
John Calne20 December 2015

The only place to find an electric focus used to be your camera. But soon, Ford dealers will have them too.

During the next 12 months, the new Ford Focus Electric will go on sale. And it’ll be the first of many such cars, as Ford aims to be offering electric options across 40% of its product range by the end of the decade.

There’s already an electric Focus in the US. Its 143bhp motor is good for 85mph and a range of something like 100 miles on between two and three hours’ charge – but Ford says the new one will do much better.

Its battery pack will pull in 80% of its potential charge in the time it takes to get a quick haircut

Its battery pack will pull in 80% of its potential charge in the time it takes to get a quick haircut, for example. A new fast charging system sees to that.

And the car itself will have a display showing you how best to eke out every last mile from your battery. This will include a ‘braking coach’, which will help you bring it gently to a halt.

Just so long as you don’t have the other kind of braking coach a couple of car lengths in front of you at the time, obviously.

Ford is at pains to stress that this new focus (boom boom) on electric propulsion doesn’t mean it’s going to give up building cars that are engaging to drive. But with an investment of almost three billion pounds about to go into adding more than a dozen EVs during the life cycle of the current model range, it’s very serious indeed about catching the zero-emissions wave.

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