chief executive Alan Mulally indicated that battery packs for the company's Focus electric car cost between $12,000 and $15,000 during remarks made at the "Fortune" magazine Brainstorm Green conference in California in April 2012.Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition...
But like most EVs on the market, Ford’s battery-powered Focus will cost a pretty penny when it rolls out later this spring. Sticker price for the Focus Electric starts at $39,000 and offers an average range of 76 miles. By contrast, Nissan’s all-electric Leaf...
Ford EV Battery Let's face it: this was not a great week for several big, legacy automakers trying to figure out what's next. We'll start with Ford, since that was the big one. A few years ago, Ford decided to separate out its sales and financial results into three divisions: ...
“You’re taking $20-$30 per kilowatt hour out of the battery; BYD has been able to get more. With a 100kWh battery, that’s a lot [of cost out]. But if you’re someone who charges a lot, the battery is far more durable and can take probably five times the duty cycles. Thes...
Ford will provide funding and effort, while CATL will provide technology and services, and the two parties will cooperate to produce lithium iron phosphate batteries. For the car giant, Ford has introduced CATL's battery technology in an almost "humble" way, which is also based on cost control...
E-Transit Custom’s 400-volt, 74 kWh useable battery pack uses advanced 82 Ah pouch cells shared with the Ford F-150 Lightning to deliver 12 per cent more energy density than the E‑Transit. The battery enables a targeted range of up to 380 km 2 –over four times the average one-to...
Fleet customers have the option of purchasing the extended range battery on the Lighting Pro which now has an EPA-estimated range of 320 miles. Quote Ford: “We are laser focused on continually improving our energy consumption efficiency for Lightning and the team is really happy to deliver ...
There is no battery on the key itself; the small amount of energy required to identify the key is supplied by the vehicle SecuriLock is designed so that it is not necessary for the driver to follow any procedure to arm the system. It is automatically armed when the key is removed from ...
The racing team needs the US carmaker’s expertise in cell technology as F1 moves to 50% battery power from 2026. For Ford, the deal is a shop window for its expertiseFord chief executive Jim Farley with Christian Horner Ford’s new focus: how the carmaker buckled up with Red Bull for...
CPI, based in Troy, Mich., will begin battery pack assembly for the Ford Focus Electric next year and is finalizing production site selection for the U.S. The lithium-ion cells for the packs will initially be sourced from Korea through LG Chem. LG Chem and CPI will be localizing cell pr...