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At present Ford wants to be the in the 200-mile, $35,000 EV business. CEO Mark Fields said information technology will introduce a long-range electric vehicle that would be competitive with announced models from Full general Motors and Tesla Motors that go at least 200 miles on a charge and cost around $35,000 before options. Information technology will probable exist named the Model E. In the meantime, Ford will button the range of its existing Focus Electric from 76 miles to 100 miles.

Fields made the remarks in a briefing telephone call with analysts and reporters Thursday. He did non specify a time for launching the Model E. Just to exist competitive, it needs to happen in the next 2-3 years to avoid being a tardily entry following the Chevrolet Commodities, Tesla Model 3, and a longer-range Nissan Leafage.

2016 Ford Focus Electric

1 of 13 Ford hybrids / EVs past 2022

Ford in December announced plans to add 13 electrical vehicles, hybrids, and plug-in hybrids by 2022. Currently it has two hybrids, the Fusion and C-Max; two plug-in hybrids, the C-Max Energi and Fusion Energi; and one EV, the Focus Electric (above). They have list prices ranging from $26,000 (Fusion Hybrid) to $32,000 (C-Max Energi). There is also a Lincoln version of the Fusion Hybrid, the Lincoln MKZ Hybrid ($35,000 base toll).

This fall, the range of the Ford Focus EV will crash-land from 76 miles to 100 miles. That would reflect the increasing capacity of batteries and smarter control software. Asked on the briefing call if Ford planned an EV with a 200-mile range, Fields replied that Ford intended to exist "amongst the leaders or in a leadership position … clearly that'southward something nosotros're developing for."

Some reports say production would begin 2022 in Ford's just-announced new plant in United mexican states — the i Donald Trump called a "disgrace" considering the jobs would be in North America not made-in-the-United states of america America. Already there are more than a dozen automaker plants in Canada and Mexico supplying the U.s.a. market, while at the same time some plants in the US export to the residue of the earth. (The biggest exporter from the The states is in fact is a strange-flag automaker, BMW, which this twelvemonth may export more about 315,000 vehicles worth $xi billion from its South Carolina constitute.)

Buyers tend to feel more comfortable with an EV that gets 200 miles on a charge, because it opens up the car to weekend travel as well as weekday commuting. They'll exist more interesting with prices in the thirties (the Tesla Model Due south starts in the seventies) and the possibility, for the automaker's first 200,000 EVs and plug-ins, of $7,500 tax credits.

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At to the lowest degree 3 200-mile EVs transport before Ford

ChevyVolt2017-764A8773Ford'south timing, if 2022 is correct, would brand it the fourth automaker to the 200-mile political party in this price range. The Chevrolet Commodities is probable to be first. Information technology's a compact car with a range effectually 200 miles that goes into production this year (thus assuasive for start-customer-ship slippage into Q1 2022) and a delivered price of $30,000 or less, meaning a listing toll of upward to $37,500 less a federal revenue enhancement credit of $7,500.

Tesla's just announced Tesla Model 3 will ship in late 2022, Tesla says. It will have a base price in the mid-thirties before the tax credit rebate, although at least half the buyers on the waiting list may take commitment afterward the tax credit ($vii,500 for the start 200,000 Tesla EV buyers, then half credit for six months and one-quarter credit for six more months) expires.

The side by side-generation Nissan Leaf is expected to have a range of 200 miles or more. Currently the Leaf is the acknowledged affordable EV. It'south possible Nissan would offer Leaves with 100- and 200-mile ranges and the buyer chooses which they prefer based on the price differential, probably $5,000.

At the same fourth dimension, plug-in hybrids are getting better. The 2022 Chevrolet Volt (inset) now aircraft easily gets l-plus miles on bombardment before the iv-cylinder gasoline engine kicks in. It'southward base-priced at $33,000 (pre-taxation credit) and the only rap on the compact car is its meaty back seat and cargo surface area. BMW with its BMW i3 compact sedan EV/plug-in found the majority of buyers opted for the version with a "range extender" gasoline engine rather than the EV but.