{"id":5424,"date":"2021-01-10T00:51:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5424"},"modified":"2021-01-10T18:27:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T18:27:53","slug":"ford-to-launch-focus-bev-test-fleet-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5424","title":{"rendered":"Ford to launch Focus BEV test fleet in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Focus-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/electric\/\">electric car<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/ford\/\">Ford<\/a> is developing with Magna for a 2011 introduction is not the only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/electric\/\">EV<\/a> program in the company. Early next year, Ford will start testing a fleet of battery-powered Focuses in the UK with funding from a British government program. The Technology Strategy Board announced a total of \u00a325 million for eight projects, including the Ford EV test (we&#x27;ll have details on the others up soon). Unlike the production-intent program in the U.S., Ford is collaborating with its partner for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/ford\/transit+connect\/\">Transit Connect<\/a> EV, Smith Electric vehicles. The battery Focuses will be used by staff from Scottish and Southern Energy in Hillingdon, Middlesex, a utility which is partnering with Smith and Ford on the program. The Focus will use the same lithium iron phosphate batteries that Smith put into the <a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/2009\/03\/04\/geneva-2009-ford-tourneo-connect-bev-concept\/\">Tourneo Connect BEV concept that we saw at the Geneva Show in March<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.aolcdn.com\/dims-global\/dims3\/GLOB\/legacy_thumbnail\/1049x590\/quality\/80\/http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autobloggreen.com\/media\/2009\/03\/bev_concept-01.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/06\/24\/ford-to-launch-focus-bev-test-fleet-in-the-uk\/<\/p>\n<p>2009-06-24T13:28:00+00:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Focus-based electric car that Ford is developing with Magna for a 2011 introduction is not the only EV program in the company. Early next year, Ford will start testing a fleet of battery-powered Focuses in the UK with funding from a British\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autoblog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9951,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424\/revisions\/9951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}