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You might find this site useful. http://carcharging.us/index.php The thing you might find really useful is the section electrical plugs and adapters. Some make your own or buy. There is also a really good discussion about 120 versus 240 volt charging. It started as a Tesla thing, and has...

Wall-e was our white leased 2014 FFE. We returned it last week. I just got an email today from Ford that Wall-e has been removed from MFM. And sure enough, it is no longer there. For the last three days I've tried to access the car with the mobile app, and it kept giving me a failed update...

This is pretty cool what this guy in Australia did. There's a lot of good information about why he did what, more than how to actually build the car. http://www.instructables.com/id/Electric-Vehicle-A-simple-lightweight-EV-platform-/

Something tells me this is old news for you all - you've probably all poured over the sales figures. 1.5% of North American car sales. I happen to like Brian Cooley at CNet, I liked his spin on electric cars for 2014. He mentions the FFE at 52 seconds. You might want to hang on for the last...

I have a friend that lives in Sedalia, Missouri. It appears the Kansas City, MO area is going to build 1,000 charging stations this summer. Right now, outside of Kansas City, there just aren't any charging stations. Plugshare showed 3 in Sedalia - all homes. By some chance, one of the guys is...

The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity is starting back up the Fall 2014 Illinois Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Rebate Program. This is a rebate of around 1/2 the cost to install a charging station. (Completely different from the Illinois rebate for buying an electric...

Does anybody know how much electricity the car uses if Go Times are set to climate off? I have a schedule of Go Times I set up for the school year. Now that summer vacation is here, there's no need for Go Times. I had them set to 65 degrees to get the car cool before leaving on a hot day. I'd...

Wish I could find a way to take my car to this event. At 300 miles away, it would be interesting trying to get there - maybe farther than I really want to drive. This year FocusFest will be at Gateway Motorsports Park in St. Louis, MO on July 25th & 26th. http://www.focusfest.com/about/ It...

This past week American Top Gear did an entire program on electric cars. They drove the FFE, a Leaf, and a Fiat 500e. And at the end Rut drives the Tesla Model S. It isn't exactly flattering for any of the three cars. But then, I'm not sure American Top Gear is all the great anyway. There is...

I'm driving a Fusion Energi while my FFE is in the shop. A bunch of questions came to mind today while I was driving that car. Mostly around battery life and cycling the battery on the FFE to low levels and fully charging the battery. This is a guess since I don't know exactly which batteries...

Our 2013 Ford Focus Electric was probably totalled today. This was a front end passenger side collision with a Saturn Vue SUV going about 30 MPH. The Focus was spun 180 degrees, the correct air bags all went off. And nobody was injured save a cut on a leg. It could have been much worse. I...