Poll : Guess the price of Ford Focus EV (11/2 announcement)

In a face book posting, Ford says ...

Thank you for your question and interest in the Focus Electric! More details on vehicle ordering, the Build & Price shopping tool, and tax credit information will be available on 11/2.

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What do you think will be the price of the base model of Focus EV before tax credits ?

Would appear to be very limited production so Ford should try to get top dollar. JMHO 40k+

smkettner said:

Would appear to be very limited production so Ford should try to get top dollar. JMHO 40k+

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Yes - but a lot of people apparently think it will be cheaper than Leaf. Not sure how that is possible unless Ford plans to take a big loss with each car.

evnow said:

a lot of people apparently think it will be cheaper than Leaf. Not sure how that is possible unless Ford plans to take a big loss with each car.

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Nobody was really sure how the Leaf could cost so littler to start with.

evnow said:

smkettner said:

Would appear to be very limited production so Ford should try to get top dollar. JMHO 40k+

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Yes - but a lot of people apparently think it will be cheaper than Leaf. Not sure how that is possible unless Ford plans to take a big loss with each car.

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How much does it cost to ship one across the ocean? I'm not sure, but it can't be cheap.

Hedge74 said:

How much does it cost to ship one across the ocean? I'm not sure, but it can't be cheap.

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Not much compared to things like
- Lack of scale
- 3rd party Battery
- Elaborate liquid cooling system for the battery
- Shipping the cars to another place to install battery/drive-train
- 6.6kw charger

darelldd said:

evnow said:

a lot of people apparently think it will be cheaper than Leaf. Not sure how that is possible unless Ford plans to take a big loss with each car.

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Nobody was really sure how the Leaf could cost so littler to start with.

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I think Nissan did it by vertical integration & commitment to large scale production (so they took a long view). Not sure how Ford is approaching this whole thing - given that FEV started as a conversion by Magna.

evnow said:

Not sure how Ford is approaching this whole thing - given that FEV started as a conversion by Magna.

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Has that changed?.. I thought it was still a 100% Magna conversion.

Herm said:

evnow said:

Not sure how Ford is approaching this whole thing - given that FEV started as a conversion by Magna.

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Has that changed?.. I thought it was still a 100% Magna conversion.

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In a FEV (or is that FFE) forum someone mentioned that Magna is no longer involved - and someone else is building the drive-trains now.

Lets see with the 2012 Leaf SV at $35,200 and the SL at $37,250 I can see Ford presenting a stripped down Focus EV with very few produced offered at $35,200 for marketing purposes.

Spies said:

Lets see with the 2012 Leaf SV at $35,200 and the SL at $37,250 I can see Ford presenting a stripped down Focus EV with very few produced offered at $35,200 for marketing purposes.

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I see them marketing FFE as a "premium" vehicle over Leaf citing (which they already emphasised when announcing FFE)
- 6.6 kw charger
- liquid cooled batteries

The question is, how much extra will they charge ? The smaller the production target, the larger the premium.

So, we have the answer - just below $40k.

http://blogs.wsj.com/drivers-seat/2011/11/02/ford-opens-ordering-for-electric-focus/?mod=google_news_blog" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

$39,995 ?

I was one of the 15 percent... Do I win anything??? :lol:

kmp647 said:

http://blogs.wsj.com/drivers-seat/2011/11/02/ford-opens-ordering-for-electric-focus/?mod=google_news_blog
$39,995

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Build and price feature is active for focus ev on the ford website
40,000 without leather

great looking car

TomT said:

I was one of the 15 percent... Do I win anything??? :lol:

kmp647 said:

http://blogs.wsj.com/drivers-seat/2011/11/02/ford-opens-ordering-for-electric-focus/?mod=google_news_blog
$39,995

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Woo Hoo !!!! Me, too... where do we collect?