Focus on ELECTRICITY: Ford joins the electric-vehicle parade

摘要

BRACE YOURSELF FOR AN Influx of electric cars coming onto the market in the next two years. From Telsa to Toyota and Fisker to Ford, there will be battery-powered transportation available in numbers not seen since the turn of the century - the 20th or 21st. Ford's first foray into modern mass-market electric has 23 kilowatt-hours of battery power and an EPA range of 76 miles. Your mileage will vary, probably for the better, unless you treat every stoplight as a drag race. The Focus Electric five-door seats five but gives up a big chunk of its utility to the second of two battery packs, one crammed into what used to be the cargo area of the Focus hatchback. We barely got a camera bag, a computer backpack and a cheap navy blazer in there. The first battery pack is stuffed unobtrusively under the rear seat, where the gas tank used to be.