All-electric Ford Focus to debut in 20 cities

[marmar]

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Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) has announced first markets that will sell the Focus Electric, Ford's first all-electric, zero CO2-emissions passenger car.

The first markets selected for Ford Focus Electric: Atlanta, Austin and Houston, Texas; Boston, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, New York, Orlando, Fla., Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.; Portland, Ore.; Raleigh Durham, N.C.; Richmond, Va., Seattle, and Washington, D.C.

"There is a great deal of excitement for the Focus Electric across America and Ford wants to build on this enthusiasm by making our first all electric passenger vehicle available in as many pilot markets as possible," said Mark Fields, President of the Americas, Ford Motor Company. "This is the first step in rolling out the Focus Electric. As the country continues to build up its electric vehicle infrastructure and demand for the Focus Electric grows, Ford will continue to evaluate additional markets and consider making this vehicle available in more cities across the country." ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.ford.com/about-ford/investor-relations/events-announcements/company-announcements/company-announcement-detail?iframeurl=http%3A//phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml%3Fc%3D87772%26p%3Dirol-newsOtherArticle%26ID%3D1496343%26highlight%3D

[Romulox]

1. Probably my next car. nt

[Brickbat]

2. I love, love, love the Focus. I've had two so far. Fantastic cars.

[gmoney]

3. what's one of these likely to cost?

I didn't see that mentioned in the press release...

[global1]

4. Focus, Leaf, Volt, Tesla - Looks Like We Are Experiencing A ......

movement here. If we are to wean ourselves off of oil - we as Americans need to support this movement. I trust that other examples of EV's are either close to being launched or being considered. I only hope that the companies that are making these vehicles are working hard to bring the cost down to the consumer so that we can adapt to them quickly.

I like what I'm seeing.

[DCKit]

5. Yay Ford!

'bout time, dammit.

[Romulox]

6. Some pics

(This one appears to show the electric motor in a current gen focus)

[Uncle Joe]

7. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, marmar.

[jaksavage]

8. Where does electricity come from?

Power plants.
Do we have excess power?
no.
How will we produce power to replace:
aging nuke plants,10%
coal plants 50%
and provide for new demand?

Love zero emissions but
we are not solving the bigger problem.
zero emision tailpipes are not zero emission vehicles,
as we burn something somewhere to charge the batteries.

[Romulox]

Domestic sources like coal, natural gas, nuclear and hydro-electric

Have you figured the cost of multi-generational wars in the Middle East into your environmental calculations? Because they are most definitely a factor!

[jaksavage]

13. War stinks

so does nuclear waste and acid rain, brown fields and ash piles.
We won't build our way out of this mess.
Live with less.

[Romulox]

9. edit: dupe. nt

[dmallind]

10. less is better

do ice cars not have upstream emissions? Do people talking about a 40mpg car always get a Mr. Pissy telling them to add in the fuel and emissions used by the refineries and the oil tankers and the oil wells to make their economy look worse?

Oh and where I live hydro is biggest source.

[jaksavage]

12. Me too

we used to have huge salmon runs.
everything costs more than we know.

[Uncle Joe]

11. Solar Plants and Wind Farms will play a growing role, this will be especially true

if we ever develop a smart grid.

[jaksavage]

14. IF we...

too bad all our money goes to war.

[DCKit]

15. Wars (plural) - for OIL

And a military that uses ~45% of our liquid fossil fuel.

[Uncle Joe]

16. I believe we will, it's just a question of how quickly.

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090721005639&newsLang=en

DEVENS, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--American Superconductor Corporation, a global energy technologies company, today announced that the United States Department of Energy (DOE) has provided more than $12 million in funding to AMSC under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to complete the following ongoing superconductor smart grid projects:

“The $47 million in Recovery Act awards announced today will support existing projects that are advancing demonstration-scale smart grid technologies which will play an important role in modernizing the country’s electricity grid.”
.•AMSC is receiving $4.8 million in additional funding to develop a three-phase 138 kilovolt (kV) fault current limiter (FCL) using the company’s 344 superconductors. This FCL will feature a proprietary Siemens-developed, low-inductance coil technology that makes the FCL invisible to the grid until it switches to a resistive state. AMSC is serving as project manager and wire supplier. The team also includes Southern California Edison, Siemens AG, Nexans and Los Alamos National Laboratory. In total, the DOE is providing nearly $8 million in funding for this project.

•AMSC is receiving $7.6 million in additional funding for the second phase of its superconductor power cable project with Long Island Power Authority (LIPA). This will be a transmission voltage (138kV) extension of the superconductor cable system that was commissioned in LIPA’s grid in April 2008. The extension utilizes AMSC’s second generation (2G) high temperature superconductor (HTS) wire, branded as 344 superconductors. AMSC is serving as project manager and wire supplier, Nexans is the cable manufacturer and Air Liquide Advanced Technologies U.S. LLC is providing the cryogenics system. In total, the DOE is providing more than $12 million for this project.

I agree with you that too much of our national treasure, not to mention blood is wasted on wars for a finite, dead and ultimately suicidal energy form.